five in the morning
Gard was quite happy when his invitation to the ball was accepted . Both mother and daughter were most glad to go . He procured the box and Frau Bucher , steeped in the practices of economy and judging that his means were modest , pooh-pooed with material kindness at his idea of an expensive motor car . He insisted on compromising by ordering one at five in the morning for the return . It would be an event and he wished to carry it off quite grandly for Elsa 's sake . She had never attended the Court Ball , it turned out , and , like all maidens of Saxony , had always longed to go . Accordingly due preparations were started by her mother and by her in what had served , since Deming 's arrival , as a kind of boudoir .