eight o'clock
But she did not flinch from her resolve ; her mind was made up . Come woe , come weal , she would go to London . An `` A. B. C. '' railway guide lay on the table -- she consulted it . A train left Chester for London at eight o'clock , A. M. Neither Lady Helena nor any of her household was stirring at that hour . She could walk to Chesholm in the early morning , get a fly there and drive to the Chester station in time . By four in the afternoon she would be in London . No thought of returning home ever recurred to her .