eight o'clock
Eric and I can watch for the carriage , and perhaps Macnab will let us drive round to the house . Then we 'll do our best to get father to consent . '' She did not wait to exchange any more words with her sister , but dashed out of the room . At eight o'clock the schoolroom party assembled for breakfast . Miss Nelson had decided not to say anything to Ermengarde until the meal was over . Her salutation of the little girl was scarcely more cold than usual , and Ermie sat down to the breakfast-table without the least idea that her delinquency of the day before had been discovered . Marjorie was the late one on this occasion .