eight o'clock
`` On one condition , '' she said , `` that we go in my pony carriage . We need no groom . The pony will stand all night in front of Mr. Peyton 's house if necessary . Come at eight o'clock . '' Before she reached her home she spoke of Lucia Catherwood as one comes to a subject in the course of a random conversation , and connected her name with that of the Secretary in such a manner that Prescott felt a thrill of anger rise , not against Mrs. Markham , but against Lucia and Mr. Sefton . The remark was quite innocent in appearance , but it coincided so well with his own state of mind in regard to the two that it came to him like a truth . `` The Secretary is very much in love with the ` Beautiful Yankee , ' '' said Mrs. Markham .