eight o'clock
She wished Mrs. Banks and Miss Stubb could see her in that dress . Mrs. Banks would cry and Miss Stubb would grow poetical . She would have to write and tell them all about it . At eight o'clock the four Miss Malletts assembled in the drawing-room . Caroline was magnificent . Old lace veiled the shimmering satin of her gown and made it possible to wear the family emeralds : these , heavily set , were on her neck and in her ears ; a pair of bracelets adorned her arms . Seen from behind , she might have been the stout and prosperous mother of a family in her prime and only when she turned and displayed the pink patches on yellow skin , was her age discernible .