eight o'clock
You see , if they 'd seen us go by , the game would have been up . As it is ... '' * * * * * At half-past seven that evening we drove into Pau . Arrived at our villa , we put the car away and hurried indoors . It was almost eight o'clock when Ping discharged his passengers upon the front steps . In silence and from the landing we watched them enter the hall . When they were all inside , I released Nobby . Five fat weeks had rolled by since Adèle had eased Jonah of sixty pounds , and the Antoinette ring we had given her to commemorate the feat was now for the first time in danger of suffering an eclipse .