eight
o'clock
I told her , and she was beginning to reproach me for not ordering round the carriage , instead of making my boots and stockings damp by traipsing across the grass , when my father said : `` That 'll do , that 'll do ! Change them and take a snack of something . I guess we 're due at Holmtown in half an hour . '' I ate my breakfast standing , the car was brought round , and by eight o'clock my father and I arrived at the house of the High Bailiff , who had to perform the civil ceremony of my marriage according to the conditions required by law . The High Bailiff was on one knee before the fire in his office , holding a newspaper in front of it to make it burn . `` Nobody else here yet ? '' asked my father .