eight o'clock
`` After supper ? '' she gasped . `` Yes , Mademoiselle , this evening . Shall I say -- at eight o'clock ? '' In horror of the thing which menaced her , of the thing from which only two hours separated her , she could find no words but those which she had already used . The worst was upon her ; worse than the worst could not befall her . `` But he has not persuaded me ! ''