eight o'clock
His plan was to march an unknown burglar , with his crape on his face , into Sir Charles 's study , give his evidence , and then reveal the son to the father . Jessie managed to hold her tongue for an hour or two , and nothing occurred at Highmore or in Huntercombe to interfere with Richard Bassett 's barbarous revenge . Meantime , however , something remarkable had occurred at the distance of a mile and a quarter . Mrs. Meyrick breakfasted habitually at eight o'clock . Reginald did not appear . Mrs. Meyrick went to his room , and satisfied herself he had not passed the night there . Then she went to the foreign gent 's shed .