seven o'clock
Miss Starbrow sat with eyes half-closed before the glass , only speaking once or twice to tell Fan not to hurry . `` The longer you are with my hair the better I like it , '' she said . Fan was only too glad to prolong the task ; it was such a pleasure to feel the hair of this woman who was now so much to her ; if the glass had not been before them -- the glass in which from time to time she saw the half-closed eyes studying her face -- she would more than once have touched the dark tresses she held in her hand to her lips . Miss Starbrow , however , spoke no more to her , but finishing her dressing went down to her seven o'clock dinner , leaving Fan alone by the fire . After dinner she came up again and sat by the bedroom fire in the dark room . Then Rosie came up to her . `` Captain Horton is in the drawing-room , ma'am , '' she said .