four o'clock
She was two thousand pounds in debt -- two thousand pounds to these two people only -- and there were ever so many shops at which she had accounts -- glovers , bootmakers , habit-makers , the tailor who made her Newmarket coats and cloth gowns , the stationer who supplied her with note-paper of every variety , monogrammed , floral ; sporting , illuminated with this or that device , the follies of the passing hour , hatched by penniless Invention in a garret , pandering to the vanities of the idle . ` I must write to my grandmother by this afternoon 's post , ' said Lesbia , with a heavy sigh . ` Impossible . We have to be at the Ranelagh by four o'clock . Smithson and some other men are to meet us there . I have promised to drive Mrs. Mostyn down . You had better begin to dress . '