eight o’clock
`` When I went to shut up , sir . About eight o'clock . Mrs. Inglethorp came up to bed before I 'd finished . '' `` Then , between seven-fifteen and eight o'clock , the cocoa was standing on the table in the left wing ? '' `` Yes , sir . '' Annie had been growing redder and redder in the face , and now she blurted out unexpectedly : `` And if there _ was _ salt in it , sir , it was n't me . I never took the salt near it . ''