about eight o’clock
`` My profession 's as good as yours , anyway ! '' the little man exclaimed . `` We are n't all fools in it ! My friend Mr. Peter Ruff said to me that there was a young lady whom I used to know who was anxious to meet me again , and would I step around here about eight o'clock . Here I am , and all I can say is , if that 's the young lady , I never saw her before in my life . '' There was a moment 's breathless silence . Then the door was softly opened .