eight o’clock
What say you ? ' ` Very well . ' ` We have failed with a bishop ; we will now try a man of the world ; and if we are to have a man of the world , we had better have a firstrate one , and everybody agrees that our cousin -- ' ` Yes , yes , George , ' said the duchess , ` ask him to come ; tell him it is very urgent , that we must consult him immediately ; and then , if he be engaged , I dare say he will manage to come all the same . ' Accordingly , about half-past eight o'clock , the two peers arrived at Bellamont House together . They were unexpectedly late ; they had been detained at the House . The duke was excited ; even Lord Esk-dale looked as if something had happened . Something had happened ; there had been a division in the House of Lords .