eight o’clock
`` Speak of one who is my father , if no longer your friend : you know what I would have you do -- save him : save him from death and me from despair . '' `` I am ready , '' said Morley ; `` I came for that . Listen . There is a meeting to-night at half-past eight o'clock ; they meet to arrange a general rising in the country : their intention is known to the government ; they will be arrested . Now it is in my power , which it was not when I saw your father this morning , to convince him of the truth of this , and were I to see him before eight o'clock , which I could easily do , I could prevent his attendance , certainly prevent his attendance , and he would be saved ; for the government depend much upon the papers , some proclamations , and things of that kind , which will be signed this evening , for their proofs . Well , I am ready to save Gerard , my friend , for so I 'll call him as you wish it ; one I have served before and long ; one whom I came up from Mowbray this day to serve and save ; I am ready to do that which you require ; you yourself admit it is no light deed ; and coming from one you have known so long , and , as you confess , so much regarded , should be doubly cherished ; I am ready to do this great service ; to save the father from death and the daughter from despair . -- if she would but only say to me , ` I have but one reward , and it is yours .