seven in the evening
`` You impudent villain ! '' cries the lady in a rage . `` Get out of my sight , and leave the house this night ! '' Joseph having received what wages were due , and having been stripped of his livery , took a melancholy leave of his fellow-servants and set out at seven in the evening . _ II . -- Adventures on the Road _ It may be wondered why Joseph made such extraordinary haste to get out of London , and why , instead of proceeding to the habitation of his father and mother , or to his beloved sister Pamela , he chose rather to set out full speed to Lady Booby 's country seat , which he had left on his journey to town . Be it known then , that in the same parish where this seat stood there lived a young girl whom Joseph longed more impatiently to see than his parents or his sister .