two o'clock
Miss Merlin never now got up to breakfast with the family . Her life of fashionable dissipation was beginning to tell even on her youthful and vigorous constitution . Every evening she was out until a late hour , at some public ball , private party , concert , theater , lecture room , or some other place of amusement . The consequence was that she was always too tired to rise and breakfast with the family , whom she seldom joined until the two o'clock lunch . And at that hour Ishmael was sure to be at court , where the case of Cobham versus Hanley , in which Mr. Worth was counsel for the plaintiff , was going on . At the six o'clock dinner he daily met her , as I said , but that was always in public . And immediately after coffee she would go out , attended by Mrs. Middleton as chaperone and the Viscount Vincent as escort .