eight o'clock
`` The wretch who said he was Muldoon . The -- the train robber . '' Well , it took hours to tell the story , and when we had all finished and Aggie had gone to bed in Tish 's spare room with hysteria , and Tish had gone to bed with tea and toast , Charlie Sands was still walking up and down the parlor , stopping now and then to mutter : `` Well , I 'll be -- '' and then going on with his pacing . Hannah brought me a cup of junket at eight o'clock , for none of us had eaten dinner . I was sitting there with the cup in my lap when the doorbell rang . Charlie Sands answered it . It was a letter addressed to all three of us .