eight o’clock
`` Oh ! I 've been waiting to see you this half hour , miss , '' she said . `` I could n't get you alone . Just before eight o'clock , as I was about to enter the park by the side gate near Bervie Farm , a gentleman approached me and asked if my name was Duncan . I told him it was , and then he gave me this to give to you in secret . He also gave me a pound note , miss , to say nothing about it . '' And the prim lady 's maid handed her young mistress a small white envelope upon which her name was written .