eight o'clock
I 'll stay until -- Go back to bed . It is very early . '' Peter had not been able after all to secure the Nurse Elisabet , and now it was useless . At eight o'clock he let Marie take his place , then he bathed and dressed and prepared to face another day , perhaps another night . For the child 's release came slowly . He tried to eat breakfast , but managed only a cup of coffee . Many things had come to Peter in the long night , and one was insistent -- the boy 's mother was in Vienna and he was dying without her .