eight o’clock
`` Is it so late ? '' Susy cried , incredulous . `` After nine . And the gentleman took the eight o'clock train for England . Gervaso said he had received a telegram . He left word that he would write to the signora . '' The door closed upon the maid , and Susy continued to gaze at her painted image in the glass , as if she had been trying to outstare an importunate stranger .