eleven o'clock at night
He consented to this proposal with great cheerfulness ; and I own I was not a little surprised to find him , at this first interview , in as good a humour as if nothing had happened to interrupt the felicity of our matrimonial union . `` It cost me some invention to conceal my condition from his notice , being now within a week of the expected crisis . But I knew I had to do with a man of no great penetration , and succeeded in my attempt accordingly . We breakfasted with great harmony , and I invited him to dinner , after having prevailed upon him to send away his myrmidons , whom , nevertheless , he ordered to return at eleven o'clock at night . We conversed together with great gaiety and mirth . When I rallied him for visiting me in such a dishabille , he stood on tiptoe to view himself in the glass ; and , owning I was in the right , said he would go and dress himself before dinner . He accordingly went away , charging my maid to give him entrance at his return ; and he was no sooner gone than I wrote to Mr. S -- , giving him an account of what had happened .