eight o'clock
`` Very well ; but if you are not up in time we sha n't wait for you , '' said Dexie , smiling , `` for dead men need no breakfast . '' `` Oh ! you 'll see , Miss Dexie , I 'll be up to-morrow in time , without fail , '' and he laughed as he disappeared up the stairs . But when eight o'clock came next morning , it brought no Plaisted with it , and Dexie horrified them by asking if they had better go up and view the remains . Breakfast was eaten in silence . Mr. Sherwood was vexed at Plaisted 's laziness when there was so much need of energetic work to make up for time lost and wasted . `` Perhaps he did not hear the bell , '' said Gussie , as the clock struck nine .