six in the afternoon
If I were the bridegroom of such a beautiful young lady , I should come to dinner half a day earlier , not half a day later . There will be nice scenes , if he has his cooking ever done at home . But of course at Vienna that is not the case , everybody lives on restaurant fare . There one may dine at six in the afternoon . At any rate , what midday diners leave is served up again for the benefit of later comers : -- thanks , very much . '' Finally the last bark which Mistress Boris did not deign even to notice from the kitchen , heralded the approach of manly footsteps in the verandah : and when in answer to the bell Mistress Boris rushed to the door , to her great astonishment she beheld , not the gentleman from Vienna , but the one from across the way , with a strange young gentleman . `` May I speak with the master ? ''