eight until seven
No one else had been to Madame Schumann 's Farewell ... sitting at the piano with her curtains of hair and her dreamy smile ... and the Philharmonic Concerts . No one else knew about the lectures at the Royal Institution , beginning at nine on Fridays ... . No one else 's father went with a party of scientific men `` for the advancement of science '' to Norway or America , seeing the Falls and the Yosemite Valley . No one else took his children as far as Dawli travelling all day , from eight until seven ... no esplanade , the old stone jetty and coves and cowrie shells ... Miriam was practising on the piano in the larger of the two English bedrooms . Two other pianos were sounding in the house , one across the landing and the other in the saal where Herr Kapellmeister Bossenberger was giving a music-lesson . The rest of the girls were gathered in the large schoolroom under the care of Mademoiselle for Saturday 's _ raccommodage _ .