8 p.m.
And also : `` We _ miss _ you , you know , '' and had put her head on one side . Marguerite had thoroughly approved his acceptance of the invitation . She thought that he ` ought ' to accept . He had promised , as she had an urgent design to do , not to arrive at the studio before 8 p.m. , and he had received a note from her that morning to insist on the hour . The roads were covered with a very even , very thin coating of mud ; it was as though a corps of highly skilled house-painters had laid on the mud , and just vanished . The pavements had a kind of yellowish-brown varnish . Each of the few trees that could be seen -- and there were a few -- carried about six surviving leaves .