eight o’clock
`` I send back your key , which I have never used , and which might be useful to you , if you are often ill as you were yesterday . '' As you will see , I was unable to end my letter without a touch of impertinent irony , which proved how much in love I still was . I read and reread this letter ten times over ; then the thought of the pain it would give to Marguerite calmed me a little . I tried to persuade myself of the feelings which it professed ; and when my servant came to my room at eight o'clock , I gave it to him and told him to take it at once . `` Shall I wait for an answer ? '' asked Joseph -LRB- my servant , like all servants , was called Joseph -RRB- . `` If they ask whether there is a reply , you will say that you do n't know , and wait . ''