nine o'clock
Frank sat quite quiet all the evening , reading old volumes of _ Punch _ . They dined at half-past seven , by request -- Frank still in his homespun suit . Fanny and Jill were rather difficult . It seemed to them both a most romantic thing that this black-eyed , sunburned young man , with whom they had played garden-golf the day before , should really be continuing his amazing walking-tour , in company with two friends , at nine o'clock that very night . They wondered innocently why the two friends had not been asked to join them at dinner . It was exciting , too , and unusual , that this young man should dine in an old homespun suit . They asked a quantity of questions .