about eight o'clock
Nobody had seen them leave together . Robert had certainly left the company an hour before it scattered ; none of them could know that he was waiting in that inner room . With a rapid step he took his way through Kent street into a region where he was quite unknown , and by a circuitous route reached the foot of Great George street . He arrived at home about eight o'clock . John had had his dinner , and the younger children had gone to bed . Little John sat opposite him on the hearthrug , but the old man and the child were both lost in thought . David 's face at once terrified his uncle .