ten o'clock
`` I am quite of your opinion , '' returned the gentleman addressed -- `` as much native aristocracy as you please , but no hereditary . '' The entrance of Eve and Mademoiselle Viefville interrupted this pleasantry , and the carriages being just then announced , John Effingham went in quest of Captain Truck , who was in the drawing-room with Mr. Effingham and Aristabulus . `` I have left Ned to discuss trespass suits and leases with his land - agent , '' said John Effingham , as he followed Eve to the street-door . `` By ten o'clock , they will have taxed a pretty bill of costs between them ! '' Mademoiselle Viefville followed John Effingham ; Grace came next , and Sir George Templemore and the Captain brought up the rear . Grace wondered the young baronet did not offer her his arm , for she had been accustomed to receive this attention from the other sex , in a hundred situations in which it was rather an incumbrance than a service ; while on the other hand , Sir George himself would have hesitated about offering such assistance , as an act of uncalled-for familiarity . Miss Van Cortlandt , being much in society , kept a chariot for her own use , and the three ladies took their seats in it , while the gentlemen took possession of Mr. Effingham 's coach .