seven o'clock
`` I believe I am acquainted with him , '' said Trevanion ; `` but here we are at Meurice . Now I shall just write a few lines to a legal friend , who will manage to liberate Mr. O'Leary , whose services we shall need , two persons are usual on each side in this country , and then , ` a l'ouvrage . ' '' The note written and despatched ; Trevanion jumped into a cab , and set out for the Chausse D'Antin ; leaving me to think over , as well as I could , the mass of trouble and confusion that twenty-four hours of life in Paris had involved me in . It was past seven o'clock when Trevanion made his appearance , accompanied by O'Leary ; and having in few words informed me that a meeting was fixed for the following morning , near St. Cloud , proposed that we should go to dinner at Verey 's , after which we should have plenty of time to discuss the various steps to be taken . As we were leaving the hotel for this purpose , a waiter requested of me to permit Mr. Meurice to speak a few words to me ; which , having agreed to , I entered the little bureau where this Czar of hotels sits enthroned , and what was my surprise to learn the request he had to prefer , was nothing less than that I would so far oblige him as to vacate the room I possessed in the hotel , adding that my compliance would confer upon him the power to accommodate a `` milor '' who had written for apartments , and was coming with a large suite of servants . Suspecting that some rumour of the late affair at Frescati might have influenced my friend Meurice in this unusual demand , I abruptly refused , and was about to turn away , when he , perhaps guessing that I had not believed his statements , handed me an open letter , saying , `` You see , sir , this is the letter ; and , as I am so pressed for spare room , I must now refuse the writer . '' As my eye glanced at the writing , I started back with amazement to perceive it was in my cousin Guy 's hand , requesting that apartments might be retained for Sir Guy Lorrequer , my uncle , who was to arrive in Paris by the end of the week .