about nine o'clock
At this meeting Joseph seemed to desire nothing so much as to recommend himself by an amiable bearing . Impossible to speak with more engaging frankness than he did whilst strolling away from Hanover Street in Sidney 's company . Thereafter the two saw a great deal of each other . Joseph was soon a familiar visitor in Tysoe Street ; he would come about nine o'clock of an evening , and sit till after midnight . The staple of his talk was at first the painfully unnatural relations existing between his father , his daughter , and himself . He had led a most unsatisfactory life ; he owned it , deplored it . That the old man should distrust him was but natural ; but would not Sidney , as a common friend , do his best to dispel this prejudice ?