eight o'clock
`` I did n't mean to be rude , '' retorted Patience serenely , `` only I would n't have him miss that man . '' `` Oh , I can take a hint . '' Druce started for the gate . As he reached it he turned back to the two girls and added : `` I sure hope that man keeps his appointment to meet me at eight o'clock . '' Harry Boland strode away from his interview with Patience deeply occupied with tumultuous reflections , not seeing the beauties of Millville which , but a short time before , he had been enthusiastically celebrating . He was , in fact , a young man walking in a dream . Every word the girl had uttered , every inflection of her voice , the involuntary confession of affection won from her by his own no less sudden avowal of love , projected themselves against his excited mind with all the vividness of kinetoscope pictures .