seven o'clock
`` Nonsense , Anne ! The veto has not yet been interposed , and they ca n't kill you for allowing my escort . Stay here if you like : if you go , I shall see you home . '' It was quite imperative that she should go , for dinner at Hartledon was that evening fixed for seven o'clock , and there would be little enough time to dress and return again . They set out , walking side by side . Anne told him of what Lord Hartledon had said to her that day ; and Val coloured with shame at the sullenness he had displayed , and his heart went into a glow of repentance . Had he met his brother then , he had clasped his hand , and poured forth his contrition .