eight at night
he ejaculated . `` Great Scott , do you mean to say that we are not on it !!! '' `` Oh , no , '' said the guard , `` you are upon the way-train that follows half an hour later . The express arrives at two-forty ; this train gets in between seven and eight at night . '' Nothing could bear deeper testimony to the state of Rosina 's crushed sensibilities than the way in which she received this bit of information . While Jack swore violently she continued to look out of the window with an indifference that was entirely genuine . `` To think that that other train must have been right there within a hundred feet of us ! ''