eight o'clock
Phoebe was asleep upon the press bedstead in the room below ; so the young barrister was the only watcher . He could not sleep ; he could only think of the story he had heard . He could only thank God for his friend 's preservation , and pray that he might be able to go to Clara Talboys , and say , `` Your brother still lives , and has been found . '' Phoebe came up-stairs at eight o'clock , ready to take her place at the sick-bed , and Robert Audley went away , to get a bed at the Sun Inn . It was nearly dusk when he awoke out of a long dreamless slumber , and dressed himself before dining in the little sitting-room , in which he and George had sat together a few months before . The landlord waited upon him at dinner , and told him that Luke Marks had died at five o'clock that afternoon . `` He went off rather sudden like , '' the man said , `` but very quiet . ''