eight o'clock
Anyway , I would , I decided , gratify him -- I was very fond of Dick . Then and there I wrote out a telegram to be sent off early in the morning , telling him that I would come down in the afternoon ; I had decided to try to see something of Dulcie during the morning , also to telephone to Holt to inquire for her , though without betraying to Sir Roland or Aunt Hannah that I knew anything of her movements during the previous night . But Sir Roland forestalled me . Shortly after eight o'clock I was awakened by the telephone at my bedside ringing loudly . Still half asleep , I grabbed the receiver and glued it to my ear . `` Had I seen anything of Dulcie ? Did I know where she was and why she had not returned ? ''