eight o'clock
`` You are in good time , my child ; the Gathering is for eight o'clock . '' She looked up at him . `` Yes , '' she said , quickly . `` I know it is for eight o'clock , but I have come early . I have come because I wish -- '' Her courage faltered before the intent , searching gaze of his blue eyes . `` I have come , '' she added , with gathered resolution , `` because I desire private Audience with the Prophet -- because there is something on my Soul of which I must unburden myself . '' The Arch-Mystic looked at her and his eyes seemed cold as steel .