eight in the evening
The next day is an anniversary in his life : let it be done then . '' ``` Very good , '' said the attorney . `` Will you write down instructions for the officer ? '' ``` No ; let him meet me here , at eight in the evening , and I will accompany him myself . '' ` They met on the appointed night , and , hiring a hackney-coach , directed the driver to stop at that corner of the old Pancras Road , at which stands the parish workhouse . By the time they alighted there , it was quite dark ; and , proceeding by the dead wall in front of the Veterinary Hospital , they entered a small by-street , which is , or was at that time , called Little College Street , and which , whatever it may be now , was in those days a desolate place enough , surrounded by little else than fields and ditches . ` Having drawn the travelling-cap he had on half over his face , and muffled himself in his cloak , Heyling stopped before the meanest-looking house in the street , and knocked gently at the door .