11 A.M.
But now , now at last , ambition had laid hold of him , -- and the feeling , not perhaps uncommon with such men , that personal dishonour would be attached to political failure . What would his future life be if he had so carried himself in his great office as to have shown himself to be unfit to resume it ? Hitherto any office had sufficed him in which he might be useful ; -- but now he must either be Prime Minister , or a silent , obscure , and humbled man ! DEAR DUKE , I will be with you to-morrow morning at 11 A.M. , if you can give me half-an-hour . Yours affectionately , ST. B . The Prime Minister received this note one afternoon , a day or two before that appointed for the second reading , and meeting his friend within an hour in the House of Lords , confirmed the appointment . `` Shall I not rather come to you ? ''