eight o'clock
You would be very sorry by-and-by , if I were weak enough to take you at your word ; just as sorry as you are now for your engagement to Lady Geraldine . Come , Mr. Fairfax , let us both be sensible , if we can , and let there be an end of this folly for evermore between us . Good-night ; I must go home . It is half-past eight o'clock , and at nine papa has his tea . '' `` You shall go home in time to pour out Mr. Lovel 's tea ; but you shall hear me out first , Clarissa , and you shall confess to me . I will not be kept in the dark . '' And then he urged his cause , passionately , eloquently , or with that which seemed eloquence to the girl of nineteen , who heard him with pale cheeks and fast-throbbing heart , and yet tried to seem unmoved .