eight o'clock
Titine glanced at the parted curtains and empty bed , then at the clock , and yawned . It was not yet eight o'clock . From the look of things , she was sure that Miss Challoner had arisen and departed for a morning ride before the breaking of the dawn . She peered out of the window and contracted her shoulders expressively . To ride in the cold morning air upon a violent horse when she had been out late !