eight o'clock
Or is it that you are belated like my injured friend Semifonte ? The smarting of his honour has kept him from his bed , let me tell you . But he has gone thither now , I hope , appeased . '' `` You intend to appease him , I believe , in eight hours from now , '' said I. `` The commissary will be at his chocolate at eight o'clock , at his office by eleven . It is now three . '' `` You are getting proficient in our tongue , '' he said , somewhat put out by my exactitude . `` Oh , I am proficient in more ways than one , '' I told him .