evening
before 11 o'clock
`` I hope we may have the pleasure of seeing you this evening , '' she said , and turned wearily toward the door . `` Thank you , madam , '' the fiend replied . `` I shall be more than delighted . '' Karl interrupted to say that he would not reach the house that evening before 11 o'clock . He explained that he expected an art dealer . In reality he had just recalled his promise to stop at the house of Mimi . Herman , suspecting his design , made some jesting allusion to it , which caused Olga to ask what he meant .