eight o’clock
She invited me to stay to tea with her , and I did . '' `` Did you see Captain Levison there ? '' `` I saw Thorn -- as I thought him to be . Afy told me I must be away by eight o'clock , for she was expecting a friend who sometimes came to sit with her for an hour 's chat . But , in talking over old times -- not that I could tell her much about West Lynne , for I had left it almost as long as she had -- the time slipped on past the hour . When Afy found that out she hurried me off , and I had barely got outside the gate when a cab drove up , and Thorn alighted from it , and let himself in with a latch - key . That is all I know . ''