eight o'clock
The steamship Trave of the North German Lloyd docked at its Hoboken pier at eight o'clock one morning in December . Among the passengers who presently departed from the vessel was a woman who attracted unusual attention for the reason that she was accompanied by a considerable suite of retainers and servants who were for a time as busy as flies around a honey pot , caring for their mistress ' baggage , and otherwise attending to the details of her arrival . Nor was it alone for this reason that all eyes were from time to time turned in her direction . There was about her a certain air of distinction , wealth , power and repose , which impressed itself upon the observers .