seven o'clock in the evening
The Des Anges make precedents . '' And she rode down to the Dolph house in the family carriage -- the last time it ever went out -- and made her `` proposition '' to Jacob Dolph the elder , and he brightened up most wonderfully , until you would have thought him quite his old self , and he told her what an honor he esteemed the alliance , and paid her compliments a hundred words long . And in May of the next year , King 's Bridge being out of the question , and etiquette being waived at the universal demand of society , the young couple stood up in the drawing-room of the Dolph house to be wed. . The ceremony was fashionably late -- seven o'clock in the evening . And after it was over , and the young couple had digested what St. Paul had to say about the ordinance of wedlock , and had inaudibly promised to do and be whatever the domine required of them , they were led by the half-dozen groomsmen to the long glass between the front windows , and made to stand up there , with their faces toward the company , and to receive the congratulations of a mighty procession of friends , who all used the same formulas , except the very old ones , who were delicately indelicate . The bridegroom wore a blue coat and trousers , and a white satin waistcoat embroidered with silver-thread roses and lilies-of-the-valley . The coat was lined with cream-colored satin , quilted in a most elaborate pattern ; and his necktie was of satin , too , with embroidered ends .