7 o'clock
If you would like to have a look in at the opera , come and dine with me quietly ... '' But where ? It was decades since he had dined anywhere in London save at his Club or at a private house . Ah ! that new-fangled place close to Covent Garden ... `` Let me have a line to-morrow morning to the Piedmont Hotel whether to expect you there at 7 o'clock . `` Yours affectionately , `` JOLYON FORSYTE . '' She would understand that he just wanted to give her a little pleasure ; for the idea that she should guess he had this itch to see her was instinctively unpleasant to him ; it was not seemly that one so old should go out of his way to see beauty , especially in a woman . The journey next day , short though it was , and the visit to his lawyer 's , tired him .