a quarter to eight
`` Do , Brand , there 's a good fellow ; '' struck in his friend . `` I have n't seen anything of you for such a long time . '' `` I shall be very happy indeed , '' said the tall Englishman , wondering whether he was likely to meet a goodly assemblage of sedition-mongers at this foreign persons table . `` We dine at a quarter to eight . The address is No . -- Curzon Street ; but perhaps you had better take this card . '' So they left , and were conducted down the staircase by the stout old German ; and scrambled up into the furs of the barouche .