eight o'clock
`` When did this come ? '' asked Claudia eagerly . `` A very few moments after you left , '' said Aunt Jane . `` Of course , if you had been here , you might just have caught the eight o'clock train -- very late , my dear , for you to go by , but with your father so ill -- '' And Aunt Jane wiped a tear away . Claudia also wept . `` Can nothing be done to-night ? '' she presently cried . ''