nine o'clock
On Saturdays , when his lordship would come down , a dinner was prepared for him alone . On Sundays they all dined together at three o'clock . On Sunday evening Lord Fawn would return to town to prepare himself for his Monday 's work . Perhaps , also , he disliked the sermon which Lady Fawn always read to the assembled household at nine o'clock on Sunday evening . On this Saturday he came out into the grounds after dinner , where the oldest unmarried daughter , the present Miss Fawn , was walking with Lucy Morris . It was almost a summer evening ; -- so much so , that some of the party had been sitting on the garden benches , and four of the girls were still playing croquet on the lawn , though there was hardly light enough to see the balls . Miss Fawn had already told Lucy that her brother was very angry with Mr. Greystock .