seven
o'clock
Had I not a right to pay him a trifle extra for driving me through fairy-land ? `` What had we for dinner that day ? I have a vague idea that I ate cherry tart and roast veal , fried soles , boiled custard , and anchovy sauce , all mixed together . I know that the meal seemed to endure for the abnormal period of half-a-dozen hours or so ; and yet it was only seven o'clock when we adjourned to the drawing-room , and Miss Wentworth was not due until half-past seven . My niece was all in a flutter of expectation , and ran out of the drawing-room window every now and then to see if the new governess was coming . She need not have had that trouble , poor child , had I been inclined to give her information ; since , from the chair in which I had seated myself to read the evening papers , I could see the road along which Miss Wentworth must come . My eyes wandered very often from the page before me , and fixed themselves upon this dusty suburban road ; and presently I saw a parasol , rather a shabby one , and then a slender figure coming quickly towards our gate , and then the face , which I am weak enough to think the most beautiful face in Christendom .