seven o'clock
`` It 's -- it 's a large room , '' I faltered . `` And there 's a -- a large view of the lake , too . '' There was a smothered sound at the other end of the wire . Then -- `` I want you to meet me down-town at seven o'clock . We will have dinner together , '' Von Gerhard said , `` I can not have you moping up there all alone all evening . '' `` I ca n't come . '' `` Why ? ''