ten o'clock
`` Inadvertently I introduced them -- threw them at each others ' heads . Monsieur Charretier -- Alphonse , as he once asked me to call him ! -- told her he was on his way to Cannes , where he heard that a friend of his , whom it was very necessary for him to see , was visiting a Russian Princess . He had stopped in Avignon , he said , because he was expecting the latest news of the friend , a change of address , perhaps ; and -- I do n't know who proposed it , but anyway he arranged to go with Sir Samuel and Lady Turnour to the Palace of the Popes at ten o'clock . Her ladyship was quite taken with him , and remarked to Sir Samuel that there was nothing so fascinating as a French gentleman of the _ haut monde _ . Also she pronounced his broken English ' _ sweet _ . ' She wondered if he was married , and whether the friend in Cannes was a woman or a man .