eight o'clock
`` I never got it . '' `` Horrid little fiend ! '' cried Kitty , sitting up and dashing back her hair from her tear-stained cheeks . `` I gave a boy half a crown this morning to be at the station with it by eight o'clock . And I could n't possibly either write or telegraph last night -- it was too late . '' `` Where were you ? '' said Ashe , slowly .