eight o'clock
In the morning it could be mounted . The drawings were to go to the north in a case on the morrow by passenger train , and to be met at their destination by a commissionaire common to several competitors ; this commissionaire would deliver them to the Town Clerk in accordance with the conditions . In a few minutes George was at work , excited , having forgotten all fatigue . He was saying to himself that he would run out towards eight o'clock for a chop or a steak . As he worked he perceived that he had been quite right to throw over the second drawing ; he wondered that he could have felt any hesitation ; the new drawing would be immeasurably superior . Mr. Haim ` stepped up , ' discreetly knocking , entering with dignity . The relations between these two had little by little resumed their old , purely formal quality .