eight o'clock
spoke Freda beneath her breath , her eyes shining like stars , but with a glint of tears behind their brightness . `` So I gave to him the prior 's message , and he said he would lose no time in going to see him . But he knew not when or whether he might ever return to this place . So he made up that little parcel , and he gave it into my hands ; and in so doing he begged of me that when eight o'clock had sounded from the steeples , I would myself enter yonder door and present it to one of the two maidens I should find walking here , and say that it was a parting gift from Anthony Dalaber , who was like to be taken of his foes . '' The tears suddenly welled over and flowed down Freda 's cheeks . It was Magdalen who found strength to ask : `` What will they do to him ? Of what offence can they find him guilty ?