four o'clock precisely
`` He scorns to enter into the fooleries and nonsense of these idiot people at Fairport . I must do something for him -- I must give him a dinner , and I will write to Sir Arthur to come to Monkbarns to meet him . I must consult my womankind . '' Accordingly , such consultation having been held , the following letter was sent to Sir Arthur Wardour , of Knockwinnock Castle : `` Dear Sir Arthur , -- On Tuesday , the 17th inst , I hold a symposium at Monkbarns , and pray you to assist thereat , at four o'clock precisely . If my fair enemy , Miss Isabel , can and will honour us by accompanying you , my womankind will be but too proud . I have a young acquaintance to make known to you , who is touched with some stain of a better spirit than belong to these giddy-paced times , reveres his elders , and has a pretty notion of the classics . And as such a youth must have a natural contempt for the people about Fairport , I wish to show him some rational as well as worshipful society .