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`` Well , there , of course , you are accountable to no one , and we can spend the evening together quite comfortably . '' `` I shall be delighted . But I should like not to be too late ... even in an hotel I should like not to be too late ... '' `` Of course not . We will just have supper , and you can be in bed long before ten o'clock . '' They paced slowly down the grand staircase . `` So , if you are agreeable , '' said Emil , `` we will meet at seven o'clock . '' She was on the point of replying : `` So late as that ? ''