eight o'clock
But where are the pattern people who can exert their intelligence -- when their intelligence points to one conclusion , and their interests to another ? Ah , my dear ladies and gentlemen , there is such a fine strong foundation of stupidity at the bottom of our common humanity -- if we only knew it ! I could feel no hesitation -- as soon as I had recovered myself -- about what it was my duty to do . My duty was to leave Dimchurch in time to catch the fast mail-train from London to the Continent , at eight o'clock that night . And leave Lucilla ? Yes ! not even Lucilla 's interests -- dearly as I loved her ; alarmed as I felt about her -- were as sacred as the interests which called me to my father 's bedside .