eight o'clock
`` It is a bargain , '' he promised . `` We shall be quite alone , '' Philippa warned him , `` unless Henry arrives . '' `` It is the great attraction of your invitation , '' he confessed . `` At eight o'clock , then . '' `` Captain Griffiths to see your ladyship . '' Philippa 's fingers rested for a moment upon the keyboard of the piano before which she was seated , awaiting Lessingham 's arrival . Then she glanced at the clock .