five o'clock
Later , when Mosenthal 's card of invitation for the Private View arrived , she noted the day upon her list of engagements . On the morning of Oswyn 's ordeal , Eve sent a message to her husband , who was engaged with a model in the studio , to notify to him her intention of taking the carriage into town later in the afternoon ; to which he had returned a gallant reply , expressing a hope that , if it would not bore her too much , she would pick him up somewhere and drive him home . Where and when could he meet her ? The reply , `` At Mosenthal 's at five o'clock , '' did not surprise him . He did not happen to have the vaguest idea as to what was the attraction of the day at that particular gallery . It might be Burmese landscapes , or portraits of parrots ; it was all one to him . It was extremely decorous in his wife to affect picture-galleries , and Mosenthal 's place was conveniently near to his favourite club .