8 a.m.
`` I 've got a knife , '' said he , `` of my very own . '' `` Are you the young gentleman who left the message at Waterloo ? '' said the man . `` Why , the letter I got said the train got in at 8 a.m. , not 8 p.m. . You do n't know what a turn it gave me to go down there this morning and not see him . Have you had him here all night ? '' `` Rather , '' said I. `` Daddy , there 's an ugly man came to this house .