nine o'clock
The two sat the night out in the box . The reader is familiar with Thackeray 's amusing references to the stuffy German Court balls . After his day and under the sway of the Empire , they had broadened and aired out somewhat in their automaton grandeurs . Precisely at nine o'clock the Saxon Court entered , so far as possible in battle array , and unlimbered to a slight extent before their revering subjects . No one knew of anything this Royal family had ever said , commented Anderson . None of them had done anything original or brilliant except Louise , who had run off with the tutor . She could not stand the dullness here any longer .