Monday at eight o'clock
She knit her brows and examined the telegraph form carefully . The message was forwarded from Fair Anchor . It had been handed in at the Monte Carlo post office on Sunday night , addressed to Culvercoombe , but at what hour she could not decipher . The Fair Anchor office was closed on Sunday , and opened on Monday at eight o'clock . The telegram had been received there at 8.12 ; had been taken to Culvercoombe , and apparently re-transmitted at 12.15 . All this was unimportant . But how on earth had her telegram , to which this was evidently a reply , reached Monte Carlo on Sunday evening -- last evening ?