eight o'clock
Miss Milverton had stayed longer than usual . Anna began to wonder what time her father would be home . They were to dine together on this , their last evening , but Mr Forrest was so absorbed in his preparations for leaving England that he was likely to be very late . Perhaps he would not be in till eight o'clock , and even then would have his mind too full of business to talk much at dinner , and would spend the evening in writing letters . Anna sighed . There were some questions she very much wanted to ask him , and this would be her only chance . To-morrow she was to go to Waverley , and the next day Mr Forrest started for America , and she would not see him again for two whole years .