eight o’clock
`` Send the cashier to me . '' `` He has not come , monsieur , '' said the valet . `` These fellows take advantage of me ! It is half-past eight o'clock , and he ought to have done a million francs ' worth of business by this time . '' Five minutes later Monsieur Legras came in . `` How much have we in the desk ? '' `` Only twenty thousand francs .