six o'clock
Every evening she was out until a late hour , at some public ball , private party , concert , theater , lecture room , or some other place of amusement . The consequence was that she was always too tired to rise and breakfast with the family , whom she seldom joined until the two o'clock lunch . And at that hour Ishmael was sure to be at court , where the case of Cobham versus Hanley , in which Mr. Worth was counsel for the plaintiff , was going on . At the six o'clock dinner he daily met her , as I said , but that was always in public . And immediately after coffee she would go out , attended by Mrs. Middleton as chaperone and the Viscount Vincent as escort . And she would return long after Ishmael had retired to his room , so that he would not see her again until the next day at dinner . And so the days wore on .