eight o'clock in
the morning
`` What -- of procuring the thing ? '' Undershaw nodded . Tatham considered a moment . Then he rang , and when Hurst appeared , all white and disorganized under the stress of the news just communicated to him by Undershaw 's chauffeur , he ordered his horse for eight o'clock in the morning . Victoria looked at him puzzled ; then it seemed she understood . But every other thought was soon swallowed up in the remembrance of the widow and daughter . `` Not to-night -- not to-night , '' pleaded Undershaw who had seen Netta Melrose professionally , only that morning .