seven o’clock
`` But there are the children : it is not good for growing creatures to be kept waiting for their meals . '' `` You see there are no children ; they have had their dinner . '' `` Always in the right , wife ; but there 's Mr. Percivale . '' `` I never dine till seven o'clock , to save daylight , '' he said . `` Then I am beaten on all points . Let us dine . '' During dinner I could scarcely help observing how Percivale 's eyes followed Wynnie , or , rather , every now and then settled down upon her face .