eight o'clock
asked the aide-de-camp . `` Anything you choose , '' replied the lawyer . `` Is it my business to make lies for you , do you think ? But let her be in praesentia by eight o'clock , as I have said before . '' The clerk grinned , made his reverence , and exit . `` That 's a useful fellow , '' said the counsellor `` I do n't believe his match ever carried a process . He 'll write to my dictating three nights in the week without sleep , or , what 's the same thing , he writes as well and correctly when he 's asleep as when he 's awake .