eight o’clock in the evening
The idyll still had the front of the stage . That accursed detective , it seemed , had been thrown off the scent , and that , at any rate , gave a night 's respite . But things must be brought to an issue forthwith . By eight o'clock in the evening , in a little dining-room in the Vicuna Hotel , Bognor , the crisis had come , and Jessie , flushed and angry in the face and with her heart sinking , faced him again for her last struggle with him . He had tricked her this time , effectually , and luck had been on his side . She was booked as Mrs. Beaumont . Save for her refusal to enter their room , and her eccentricity of eating with unwashed hands , she had so far kept up the appearances of things before the waiter .