about eleven o'clock
The O'Joscelyns would be delighted ; Mat Tierney would be very proud ; Captain Cokely would do himself the honour ; and , last but not least , Mr. Murray would preside below stairs -- for a serious consideration . What a pity so much trouble should have been taken ! They might all have stayed at home ; for Fanny Wyndham will never become Lady Kilcullen . On the appointed day , or rather on the night of the appointed day , Lord Kilcullen reached Grey Abbey ; for it was about eleven o'clock when his travelling-phaëton rattled up to the door . He had been expected to dinner at seven , and the first attempts of Murray in the kitchens of Grey Abbey had been kept waiting for him till half-past eight ; but in vain . At that hour the earl , black with ill-humour , ordered dinner ; and remarked that he considered it criminal in any man to make an appointment , who was not sufficiently attached to veracity to keep it . The evening was passed in moody silence .