eight o'clock in the evening
It is daylight before his mind has exhausted itself . He sleeps until midday . On awakening he renews the consideration of Nevins ' proposal . At eight o'clock in the evening Nevins arrives . Where Nevins had been the one to speak the night before , Trueman now enters upon an exhaustive interrogatory . He asks for the most minute particulars of the events that have brought him to the notice of Nevins . To all his questions there is an instant reply .