seven in the morning
The roads in many places will be bad , and we must stop for meals at least three times ; with the utmost speed we could hardly be in Paris in less than fifteen hours . Her majesty will scarce want to read long despatches at that time , and may take it that we ourselves will need a bath and a change of garments , and the services of a barber , before we could show ourselves in court . Had we been bearers of the original despatch , we might have gone in splashed from head to foot . As it is , it seems to me that if we present ourselves with our papers at seven in the morning we shall have done that which is necessary . What do you both say ? '' `` I agree with you , de Penthiere . It would be a sore pity to injure good horses by galloping them at the top of their speed , to say nothing of knocking ourselves up .