eight o'clock
I know you told me to take anything I liked but if I had once began I could never have stopped . '' `` Then we will have a feast to-morrow , René . Ask all the others in to supper , but you must act as cook . Tell them not to come to see me till eight o'clock . If they kept dropping in all day it would be too much for me . I wish Dampierre could be with us , but he has not got on so fast as I have . His wounds were never so serious , but the doctor said the bones were badly smashed and take longer to heal .