about eight o'clock
` Help ! You 'll be burnt in your bed before you can help yourself , let alone any one else , ' cried Nancy . ` Be guided by me , miss , and let us take the night-mail . Sykes says there 's one passes about eight o'clock . We could telegraph at once , and her ladyship would be delighted to see you . Do n't pass another night under this doomed house . ' ` Miss ` Oratia , w ` at is it ?