eight o’clock
There was a considerable pause before he said , in a low tone : `` Ella , Ella , I know everything -- that night . We were saved . '' At this moment Mr. Linton entered the room . He was , after all , not late , he said : it wanted a minute still of being eight o'clock . He had just been at the telephone to receive a reply regarding a box at Covent Garden . In the earlier part of the day none had been vacant , he had been told ; but the people at the box office promised to telephone to him if any became vacant in the course of the afternoon . He had just come from the telephone , and had secured a good enough box on the first tier .