about eight o'clock
` Hearts are not so easily broken , ' Miss Rayner replied , with a little sigh ; ` my dear , you must have patience and wait . I think most likely he has only been delayed . You would have heard before now if the worst had happened . ' Hugh returned about eight o'clock that evening , but he had little news to give us . Philip 's agents had known only quite recently of his illness , and were expecting to hear of his arrival in England every day . So there was nothing for me to do but wait patiently . I left Miss Rayner soon after , for the Forsyths wanted me back .