about eight o'clock
` Very well , I will go . Shall I call for you , or will you come for me ? ' ` I will call for you and we will go there together in a cab . Be ready about eight o'clock . ' The mansion of the Longworths was brilliantly lighted , and John felt rather faint-hearted as he stood on the steps before going in . The chances are he would not have had the courage to allow himself to be announced if his friend Wentworth had not been with him . George , however , had no such qualms , being more experienced in this kind of thing than his comrade .