six o'clock
They found him still in costume . He never changed to street clothing on matinee days . `` You are respectfully and cordially invited to eat dinner in my dressing room , '' announced Mr. Southard the moment they were fairly inside the door . `` I have ordered dinner for six o'clock . '' Eating dinner in a dressing room was an innovation as far as Grace and Miriam were concerned , but to Anne it was nothing new . It had been in the usual order of things during her brief engagement in `` As You Like It . '' As it was after five o'clock when they arrived it seemed only a little while until a waiter appeared with table linen and silver , which Mr. Southard ordered arranged on the table that had been brought in for the occasion .