eight o'clock
He did not speak , and she clung to him for a moment passionately close . Wherefore she could not have said , but there was in her embrace something to restrain her tears . She forced them back with her utmost resolution as they went together to see their child . Punctually at eight o'clock Tessa arrived , slightly awed but supremely happy , seated in a ` rickshaw , escorted by Bernard , and hugging the beloved Scooter to her eager little breast . Her eyes were shining with mysterious expectation . As her cavalier handed her from her chariot up the red-carpeted steps she moved as one who treads enchanted ground . The little creature in her arms wore an air of deep suspicion .