about seven in the evening
She can not be long concealed ; I have set all engines at work to find her out , and if I do , who will care to embroil themselves with a man of my figure , fortune , and resolution ? '' Belford to Lovelace : '' _ August 31 . _ When I concluded my last , I hoped that my next attendance upon this surprising lady would furnish me with some particulars as agreeable as now could be hoped for from the declining way she is in ; but I think I was never more shocked in my life than on the occasion I shall mention . `` When I attended her about seven in the evening , she had hardly spoken to me , when she started , and a blush overspread her sweet face on hearing , as I also did , a sort of lumbering noise upon the stairs , as if a large trunk were bringing up between two people . ` Blunderers ! ' said she . ` They have brought in something two hours before the time .