seven o'clock
`` Quelle fureur , dit-il , quei aveugle caprice Quand Ie dîner est prêt . '' BOILEAU . `` I HOPE your Lordship has no thoughts of waiting dinner for Lord Lindore ? '' asked Dr. Redgill , with a face of alarm , as seven o'clock struck , and neither dinner nor Lord Lindore appeared . `` I have no thoughts upon the subject , '' answered Lord Courtland , as he turned over some new caricatures with as much _ nonchalance _ as if it had been mid-day . `` That 's enough , my Lord ; but I suspect Mr. Marshall , in his officiousness , takes the liberty of thinking for you , and that we shall have no dinner without orders , '' rising to pull the bell . `` We ought undoubtedly to wait for Frederick , '' said Lady Juliana ; `` it is of no consequence when we sit down to table . ''