about eight o'clock
This excited Grace 's curiosity directly , and , whenever she could , without being observed , she peeped , and tried to read the inscription ; but , what with Mr. Raby 's head , and a monster candle that stood before it , she could not decipher it unobserved . She was inclined to ask Mr. Raby ; but she was very quick , and , observing that the other portraits were of his family , she suspected at once that the original of this picture had offended her host , and that it would be in bad taste , and might be offensive , to question him . Still the subject took possession of her . At about eight o'clock a servant announced candles in the drawing-room . Upon this Mr. Raby rose , and , without giving her any option on the matter , handed her to the door with obsolete deference . In the drawing-room she found a harpsichord , a spinet , and a piano , all tuned expressly for her . This amused her , as she had never seen either of the two older instruments in her life .