two o'clock
He may not have been in the theatre ; on Thursday night is Lady Ascott 's ball ; then on Friday -- I 'll go and see father on Friday . I 'll try to summon courage . But there is a rehearsal of ` Tannhäuser ' on Friday . '' And so that she might not be too tired on Friday morning , Owen insisted on her leaving the ball-room at two o'clock , and their last words , as he left her on her doorstep , were that she would go to Dulwich before she went to rehearsal . But in the warmth of her bed , not occupied long enough to restore to the body the strength of which a ball-room had robbed it , her resolution waned , and her brain , weak from insufficient sleep , shrank from the prospect of a long drive and a face of stone at the end of it . She sat moodily sipping her chocolate and _ brioche _ . `` You were at the opera last night , Merat .