eight o'clock
The boy should drink a glass of wine , I think , and then go to his father without delay . '' `` So far as I understand your story , sir , it leaves me with but one course . You will go at once to your room for the night , where a meal shall be sent to you . At eight o'clock to-morrow morning you will be ready to drive with me to Plymouth , where doubtless I shall discover , from the Officer Commanding , the promptest way of returning you to Dinan . '' The Squire spoke slowly , resting his elbow on the library table and shading his eyes with his palm , under which , however , they looked out with fiery directness at Walter , standing upright before him . The boy 's face went white before his brain grasped the sentence . His first sense was of utter helplessness , almost of betrayal .