eight o'clock in the evening
They reached Edinboro ' at five o'clock in the afternoon , and drove immediately to Magruder 's Hotel . Here they stopped only long enough to change their traveling dresses and dine . And then , leaving the three negroes in charge of the professor , they set out in a cab for Cameron Court . It was eight o'clock in the evening when they arrived and sent in their cards . The countess and Claudia were at tea in the little drawing room when the cards were brought in . `` Show the gentlemen into this room , '' said Lady Hurstmonceux to the servant who had brought them . And in a few minutes the door was thrown open and -- `` Judge Merlin and Mr. Worth '' were announced .