eight until ten
It was n't a setting that one would rashly destroy ... . And that evening at dinner this sense of his home as a complex of finely adjusted things not to be rashly disturbed was still more in the mind of the bishop . At dinner he had all his domesticities about him . It was the family time , from eight until ten , at which latter hour he would usually go back from the drawing-room to his study . He surveyed the table . Eleanor was at home for a few days , looking a little thin and bright but very keen and happy . She had taken a first in the first part of the Moral Science Tripos , and she was working hard now for part two .