eight o'clock
We will pass on to the day of poor Jeffrey 's death . '' ` On the fourteenth of March , ' the porter says , ` at about half-past six in the evening , the deceased came to the Inn in a four-wheeled cab . That was the day of the great fog . I do not know if there was anyone in the cab with the deceased , but I think not , because he came to the lodge just before eight o'clock and had a little talk with me . He said that he had been overtaken by the fog and could not see at all . He was quite blind and had been obliged to ask a stranger to call a cab for him as he could not find his way through the streets . He then gave me a cheque for the rent .