six
o'clock
And not even the great Merazzi , the conductor , was more familiar with the music than he . And the ineffable Mrs Clayton Vernon had asked him to dinner with Mr Millwain ! It was indubitable to Mrs Swann that all the Festival rested on her son 's shoulders . `` It 's freezing , I think , '' said Mr Swann , when he came home at six o'clock from his day 's majestic work at Toft End . This was in the bedroom . Mrs Swann , a comely little thing of thirty-nine , was making herself resplendent for the inaugural solemnity of the Festival , which began at eight . The news of the frost disturbed her .