eight o'clock in
the evening
`` Of course I do , you rabbit ! Have a look through your own race-glass . It has been the most useful thing of all . '' But before I had the glass in focus more scales had fallen from my eyes ; and now I knew why I had seen so much of Raffles these last few weeks , and why he had always come between seven and eight o'clock in the evening , and waited at this very window , with these very glasses at his eyes . I saw through them sharply now . The one lighted window pointed out by Raffles came tumbling into the dark circle of my vision . I could not see into the actual room , but the shadows of those within were quite distinct on the lowered blind .