two o'clock
He , the Marchese Lamberto , the intimate friend of the Cardinal , and the most pre-eminently respectable man in Ravenna , had had a very large -- certainly the largest -- share in bringing this woman to the city ; and he was anxious that the engagement should lead to no unpleasant results of any kind . It might be very possibly that the little matters at which the impresario had hinted , were not altogether calumnious ; -- that the lady might be one of those members of her profession who seek other triumphs besides those of her own scenic kingdom , and the story of whose lives in the different cities they visit is not confined to the walls and to the records of the theatre . It might very well be that a little caution and looking after was needed in the matter , It would be as well , therefore , to take the thing in hand at once in a manner that should put the lady on a right course from the beginning ; -- all which could be excellently well accomplished by at once taking her , as it were , into his own hands ; and would , on the other hand , be endangered by throwing her from the first into those of the youngsters who purposed going out to meet her . So the Marchese sacrificed himself ; put off the anatomist and the musician ; spent the morning in arranging all the details of the proposed cavalcade with the young men who were to compose it ; and at two o'clock got into his open carriage to drive out towards Bagnacavallo . The young Barone Manutoli and Ludovico were in the carriage with him . But it was understood , as has been said , that they were to leave it when they met the heroine of the day , who was to enter Ravenna with the perfectly safe and unattackable Marchese alone in the carriage with her . `` I wonder whether she is as lovely as she is said to be ? ''