six o’clock
Since she had taken the trouble to study the young man , she had told herself it would be a pity to let him rush upon his ruin , and that it would be a glorious thing to convert a Corsican . Our travellers spent the day in the following manner : Every morning the colonel and Orso went out shooting . Miss Lydia sketched or wrote letters to her friends , chiefly for the sake of dating them from Ajaccio . Toward six o'clock the gentlemen came in , laden with game . Then followed dinner . Miss Lydia sang , the colonel went to sleep , and the young people sat talking till very late . Some formality or other , connected with his passports , had made it necessary for Colonel Nevil to call on the prefect .