eight o'clock
`` Did you mention the Earl ? '' `` Like an ijjit , I began by giving his lordship 's name . It was my only chanst , I could n't get to the post-office nohow . Why , I was ordered to bed at eight o'clock , so 's his lordship could smoke in peace , as he said . '' `` Then my father was determined to stop you from communicating with me , if possible ? '' `` If his lordship knew that I crep ' down a back stairs to the telephone I do believe he 'd have set about me with a poker , '' said Dale grimly . `` Strange ! ''