eight o'clock
`` Give her all my sympathies , poor young lady , '' he said to me . `` And tell her that I will call upon her to-morrow . '' Then , after promising to attend the inquest and give evidence regarding the post-mortem , he shook hands with us both and left . At eight o'clock that evening I was back in my own rooms in Harley Place , eating my dinner alone , when Ambler Jevons entered . He was not as cheery as usual . He did not exclaim , as was his habit , `` Well , my boy , how goes it ? Whom have you killed to-day ? ''