eight o’clock
She is pretty ; she will assist in obscuring the deformity of Dexter . Very well ; there is our party complete ! I will shut myself up this evening and approach the question of dinner with my cook . Shall we say this day week , '' asked the Major , taking out his pocketbook , `` at eight o'clock ? '' I consented to the proposed compromise -- but not very willingly . With a letter of introduction , I might have seen Miserrimus Dexter that afternoon . As it was , the `` little dinner '' compelled me to wait in absolute inaction through a whole week .