six o'clock
A divan , covered with well-worn chintz , ran round two sides of the room . Between the ranges of the graceful casements stood a marble console-table , with a mirror in a black frame . An open card-table was placed near the marchesa . On the table there was a pack of not over-clean cards , some markers , and a pair of candles -LRB- the candles still unlighted , for the days are long , and it is only six o'clock -RRB- . There was not a single ornament in the whole room , nor any object whatever on which the eye could rest with pleasure . White-cotton curtains concealed the delicate tracery and the interlacing columns of the Venetian windows . Beneath lay the Moorish garden , entered from the street by an arched gate-way , over which long trails of ivy hung .