eight o'clock on Sunday
`` Will not you do us the honour of coming ? We are , of course , only simple folk ourselves , but somehow people seem to like us . '' The wife of the eminent peer looked at Mrs. Loveredge , looked round the grounds , looked at Mrs. Loveredge again , and said she would like to come . Mrs. Joseph Loveredge intended at first to tell her husband of her success , but a little devil entering into her head and whispering to her that it would be amusing , she resolved to keep it as a surprise , to be sprung upon him at eight o'clock on Sunday . The surprise proved all she could have hoped for . The Duke of Warrington , having journalistic matters to discuss with Joseph Loveredge , arrived at half-past seven , wearing on his shirt-front a silver star , purchased in Eagle Street the day before for eight-and - six . There accompanied him the Lady Alexandra , wearing the identical ruby necklace that every night for the past six months , and twice on Saturdays , `` John Strongheart '' had been falsely accused of stealing .