nearly eight in
the evening
`` We must slip across quietly , as soon as he 's far enough down the road . Now ! '' We hurried stealthily across , through the gate , and into the churchyard , where Hewitt threw his blue spectacles away . It was now nearly eight in the evening , and the sun was setting . Once again Wilks approached the gate , and did not enter , because a laborer passed at the time . Then he came back and slipped through . The grass about the graves was long , and under the trees it was already twilight .