seven o'clock
What Richard would have been without that blight , I never shall know now ! He told Ada , in his most ingenuous way , that he had not come to make any secret inroad on the terms she had accepted -LRB- rather too implicitly and confidingly , he thought -RRB- from Mr. Jarndyce , that he had come openly to see her and to see me and to justify himself for the present terms on which he stood with Mr. Jarndyce . As the dear old infant would be with us directly , he begged that I would make an appointment for the morning , when he might set himself right through the means of an unreserved conversation with me . I proposed to walk with him in the park at seven o'clock , and this was arranged . Mr. Skimpole soon afterwards appeared and made us merry for an hour . He particularly requested to see little Coavinses -LRB- meaning Charley -RRB- and told her , with a patriarchal air , that he had given her late father all the business in his power and that if one of her little brothers would make haste to get set up in the same profession , he hoped he should still be able to put a good deal of employment in his way . `` For I am constantly being taken in these nets , '' said Mr. Skimpole , looking beamingly at us over a glass of wine-and-water , `` and am constantly being bailed out -- like a boat .