Seven o'clock
`` I think it is , and therefore I intend to see you through . '' `` Suit yourself , of course . I 'd like to have you go along , but I do n't want to get you into any fuss . '' Seven o'clock that evening found the two friends dining at the little cafe in the foreign quarter , but they were seated at one of the corner tables and their backs were toward the wall . `` I 've had my reasons for eating here , and it was n't altogether the coffee , either , '' the elder man confessed . `` I suspected as much , '' Norvin told him . `` At least I could n't detect anything remarkable about this Rio . ''