eight o'clock
Io Eyre had begun to read it , and her heart went out to him anew . For this was the test of success . It was one of those mornings of coolness after cloying heat when even the crowded , reeking , frowzy metropolis wakes with a breath of freshness in its nostrils . Independent of sleep as ever , Banneker was up and footing it briskly for the station before eight o'clock , for Camilla Van Arsdale was returning to Manzanita , having been ordered back to her seclusion with medical science 's well-considered verdict wrapped up in tactful words to bear her company on the long journey . When she would be ordered on a longer journey by a mightier Authority , medical science forbore to specify ; but in the higher interests of American music it was urgently pressed upon her that she be abstemious in diet , niggardly of work , careful about fatigue and excitement , and in general comport herself in such manner as to deprive the lease of life remaining to her of most of its savor and worth . She had told Ban that the physicians thought her condition favorable . Invalidism was certainly not suggested in her erect bearing and serene face as she moved about her stateroom setting in order the books , magazines , flowers , and candy , with which Banneker had sought to fortify her against the tedium of the trip .