nine o’clock
The details of the business he would hear later on . For the present he preferred to know nothing about them . An officer entered the room and handed a letter to Lord Dunseveric . It was a request , in civil language enough , that he would meet General Clavering in the public room of the inn at nine o'clock , and that Maurice would accompany his father . General Clavering sat at the head of the table when Lord Dunseveric and Maurice entered . Three or four of the senior officers of the regular troops sat with him . Captain Twinely , in a suit of clothes he had borrowed from the master of the inn , and one of his men , stood near the fireplace .