about seven o'clock
in the evening
The widow shrugged her shoulders . `` You do not consider Nicholas is in any danger , I see , mother . And , after all , I dare say you are quite right ! The old woman desired him to be on the Quai de Billy , opposite the landing-place , about seven o'clock in the evening , and wait there for a person who wished to speak with him , and who would utter the word ` Bradamanti ' as a sort of countersign . Certainly there is nothing very perilous in doing so much . No doubt Nicholas is late from having to-day found , as he did yesterday , something on the road . Look at this capital linen which he contrived to filch from a boat , in which a laundress had just left it ! ''