eight o'clock in the
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Lydia asked . `` Well -- no ; it was not affectionate at all . '' This was all that Lucy said , and thus Lady Eustace completed her visit to Fawn Court . The letters were taken away for the post at eight o'clock in the evening , and before that time it was necessary that Lucy should write to her lover . `` Lady Fawn , '' she said in a whisper , `` may I tell him to come here ? '' `` Certainly , my dear . You had better tell him to call on me .