eight o'clock
`` I will go and fetch it , '' Dick said , and , rising , left the room . A figure was standing at the door , when he reached the house . `` I was afraid you had forgotten me , '' the man said . `` It is not quite eight o'clock yet , but as I found that you were both out , I began to be afraid that you might be detained until after I had to go ; and you do n't know how I long for a pipe of that tobacco . The very thought of it seems to bring old days back again . '' By this time they had entered the house , and Dick shut the door behind him . He had left a light burning , when they went out .