eight o'clock
she is well , I know -- Rupert tells me _ that _ , and her letters are cheerful and kind as ever , without a word of complaint . But I _ must _ see her soon . Grace Wallingford and Lucy Hardinge were not born to live asunder . Here is the carriage ; I shall see you in the morning , Miles -- at breakfast , say -- eight o'clock , precisely . '' `` It will be impossible -- I sail for Clawbonny with the first of the flood , and that will make at four . I shall sleep in the sloop . '' Major Merton put Lucy into the carriage ; the good-nights were passed , and I was left standing on the lowest step of the building gazing after the carriage , Rupert walking swiftly away .