six o’clock
` Now , that 's what the books call _ flirtation _ , ' she said to herself . ` I think I can do that . ' And on the whole she could , vastly better than might have been expected of her birth and breeding . At six o'clock a note was delivered for her . Richard wrote from an hotel in the neighbourhood , asking her to come to him . She found him in a private sitting-room , taking a meal . ` Why did n't you come to the house ? '