ten o'clock
said Dolly . `` I am very glad I was not there , '' said Nidderdale . It was three o'clock before they left the card table , at which time Melmotte was lying dead upon the floor in Mr. Longestaffe 's house . On the following morning , at ten o'clock , Lord Nidderdale sat at breakfast with his father in the old lord 's house in Berkeley Square . From thence the house which Melmotte had hired was not above a few hundred yards distant . At this time the young lord was living with his father , and the two had now met by appointment in order that something might be settled between them as to the proposed marriage . The Marquis was not a very pleasant companion when the affairs in which he was interested did not go exactly as he would have them .