six o’clock
All this was very pleasant to Miss Stackpole , and she was sorry to be obliged to separate from Lady Pensil 's obliging brother . But it happened that she had met the day before , in Piccadilly , some friends whom she had not seen for a year : the Miss Climbers , two ladies from Wilmington , Delaware , who had been travelling on the Continent and were now preparing to re-embark . Henrietta had had a long interview with them on the Piccadilly pavement , and though the three ladies all talked at once they had not exhausted their store . It had been agreed therefore that Henrietta should come and dine with them in their lodgings in Jermyn Street at six o'clock on the morrow , and she now bethought herself of this engagement . She prepared to start for Jermyn Street , taking leave first of Ralph Touchett and Isabel , who , seated on garden chairs in another part of the enclosure , were occupied -- if the term may be used -- with an exchange of amenities less pointed than the practical colloquy of Miss Stackpole and Mr. Bantling . When it had been settled between Isabel and her friend that they should be reunited at some reputable hour at Pratt 's Hotel , Ralph remarked that the latter must have a cab . She could n't walk all the way to Jermyn Street .