one o'clock
What was he to do ? -- what was he to do ? Something he must do quickly . The Cardinal Legate was expecting him at one o'clock , and -- would it be best to drive Bianca from his mind till afterwards ? Go to her he must in the course of the day ! Then , suddenly as a lightning-flash , he saw her before him as he had gazed on her at the theatre overnight in her white night-dress , uttering those words of passionate love -- love which she told him was all addressed to him , -- which she was pining to speak to him again . That , then , it was in his power to have , and to have now , -- now at once .