eight o'clock
`` Listen , '' he began dictatorially . `` The public came to-day in masses . There was no room left in the evening , and the police came in to keep order . At eight o'clock , that is , earlier than usual , the proprietor thought it necessary to close the shop and end the exhibition to count the money he had taken and prepare for to-morrow more conveniently . So I know there will be a regular fair to-morrow . So we may assume that all the most cultivated people in the capital , the ladies of the best society , the foreign ambassadors , the leading lawyers and so on , will all be present . What 's more , people will be flowing here from the remotest provinces of our vast and interesting empire .