eight o'clock
`` No , but tell me . Please ! '' `` Father always goes to bed early . '' `` But not at eight o'clock . It was a quarter of eight when I came , and by eight he was gone . '' `` It is n't you , Roger , '' she said , unwillingly ; `` it 's anyone . I 'm all he has , and if I talk much to other people he feels as if I were being taken away from him -- that 's all .