Eight o'clock
`` You see we was n't aware till this morning that you were going to move , or we could have been forwarder . '' `` A -- well , never mind , never mind ! '' said Farfrae cheerily . `` Eight o'clock will do well enough if it be not later . Now , do n't ye be standing here talking , or it will be twelve , I doubt . '' Thus speaking he went out by the front door and up the street . During this interval Henchard and Lucetta had had experiences of a different kind .