eight o’clock
`` Will you take the bouquet-holder that I chose the other week for Marfinka 's birthday to the goldsmith ? '' she said , handing him her purse . `` I gave him some pearls to set in it , and her name should be engraved . And could you be up as early as eight o'clock on her birthday ? '' `` Of course . If necessary , I can stay up all night ! '' `` I have already spoken to the gardener , who owns the big orangery .