eight
o'clock
He greeted me with even extra courtesy and made me compliment . I can not understand it all -- he has never before come so early in the year -LRB- this is May -RRB- . What can it mean ? Grandmamma sent me out of the room directly , and we did not have dinner until eight o'clock . I could hear their voices from my room , and they seemed talking very earnestly , and not so gayly as usual . At dinner the Marquis , for the first time , addressed his conversation to me . He prefers to speak in English -- to show what a linguist he is , I suppose .