eight in the morning
` Where have you been ? ' I asked him . '' ` Down on the harbor , ' he told me . Since eight in the morning he 'd been in a launch exploring it all . I shut my eyes -- my wretched eyelids quivering -- and I made him describe the whole day 's trip while I tried to see it all in my mind . Soon I was feeling deliciously quiet . ` I 'm going down there too , ' I thought .