nearly eight o'clock
she remarked , indifferently . `` You dine with us of course . Pray go and find papa . It must be nearly eight o'clock , and we are supposed to dine at six . '' Mr. Audley answered his cousin rather sternly . Her frivolous manner jarred upon him , and he forgot in his irrational displeasure that Miss Audley had known nothing of the terrible drama which had been so long enacting under her very nose . `` Your papa has just endured a very great grief , Alicia , '' the young man said , gravely .