seven o'clock
`` If your Lordship will favor me with your company for a few minutes , I may be able to enlighten you , '' said Sir Stafford , moving towards the door . `` With the greatest pleasure . Good-bye , Lady Hester , '' said he , rising . `` You said seven o'clock dinner , I think ? '' `` Yes , '' replied she , but in a voice almost inarticulate from shame and terror . `` Now , Sir Stafford , I 'm at your orders , '' said the Viscount , gayly , as he left the room , followed by the old man , whose crimson cheek and flashing eye bespoke the passion which was struggling within him . Of the two who now entered Sir Stafford 's library , it must be owned that Lord Norwood was , by many degrees , the more calm and collected .