seven o’clock
`` The carriage is at the door now . '' `` Very well . Mr. Carlyle remains . '' At seven o'clock the dinner was announced , and the earl wheeled into the adjoining room . As he and Mr. Carlyle entered it at one door , some one else came in by the opposite one . Who -- what -- was it ? Mr. Carlyle looked , not quite sure whether it was a human being -- he almost thought it more like an angel .