eight in the evening
All his keen taste for these matters flamed up again , and he wondered what the girl was studying , was rehearsing , what she was to do next . He got back into his hansom and drove down the Edgware Road . By the time he reached the Marble Arch he had changed his mind again , had determined to let Miriam alone for that day . It would be over at eight in the evening -- he hardly played fair -- and then he should consider himself free . Instead of pursuing his friends he directed himself upon a shop in Bond Street to take a place for their performance . On first coming out he had tried , at one of those establishments strangely denominated `` libraries , '' to get a stall , but the people to whom he applied were unable to accommodate him -- they had n't a single seat left . His actual attempt , at another library , was more successful : there was no question of obtaining a stall , but he might by a miracle still have a box .