eight o'clock
`` What business have you got with me ? '' `` Enough to satisfy you , I think . But there 's one thing I do n't want to do '' -- Joe glanced at the open door -- `` and that is to talk about it here -- for your own sake and because I think Miss Tabor should be present . I called to ask you to come to her house at eight o'clock to-night . '' `` You did ! '' Martin Pike spoke angrily , but not in the bull-bass of yore ; and he kept his voice down , glancing about him nervously as though he feared that his wife or Mamie might hear . `` My accounts with her estate are closed , '' he said , harshly .