five in the afternoon
Wycherley did not see her all that morning , for Lady Drogheda was fatigued , or so a lackey informed him , and as yet kept her chamber . His Araminta he found deplorably sullen . So the dramatist devoted the better part of this day to a refitting of his wedding-suit , just come from London ; for Moncrieff , an invaluable man , had adjudged the pockets to be placed too high ; and , be the punishment deserved or no , Mr. Wycherley had never heard that any victim of law appeared the more admirable upon his scaffold for being slovenly in his attire . Thus it was as late as five in the afternoon that , wearing the peach-colored suit trimmed with scarlet ribbon , and a new French beaver , the exquisite came upon Lady Drogheda walking in the gardens with only an appropriate peacock for company . She was so beautiful and brilliant and so little -- so like a famous gem too suddenly disclosed , and therefore oddly disparate in all these qualities , that his decorous pleasant voice might quite permissibly have shaken a trifle -LRB- as indeed it did -RRB- , when Mr. Wycherley implored Lady Drogheda to walk with him to Teviot Bay , on the off-chance of recovering his sleeve-links . And there they did find one of the trinkets , but the tide had swept away the other , or else the sand had buried it . So they rested there upon the rocks , after an unavailing search , and talked of many trifles , amid surroundings oddly incongruous .