eight o'clock
Ten times during the night he had asked himself , `` Where will she be to-morrow ? '' and now he thought , `` It is to-day . This morning she is still here ; to-night she will be here no longer . '' He went to her house before eight o'clock . She was not up ; he set out to walk in the park ; he could not ; he returned . The passages were full of boxes and parcels ; he sat down in a corner of the room listening for the creaking of doors and floors , and recognizing the footsteps on the floor above him . Frau von Kerich passed , smiled as she saw him and , without stopping , threw him a mocking good-day .