eight o’clock
`` You leave us early , my dear , '' I said ; `` but , before you go to-morrow morning -- '' I stopped to listen for the last time , before the words were spoken which committed me to the desperate experiment of pleading George 's cause in defiance of his own request . Nothing caught my ear but the sweep of the weary weakened wind and the melancholy surging of the shaken trees . `` But , before you go to-morrow morning , '' I resumed , `` I want to speak to you in private . We shall breakfast at eight o'clock . Is it asking too much to beg you to come and see me alone in my study at half past seven ? '' Just as her lips opened to answer me I saw a change pass over her face . I had kept her hand in mine while I was speaking , and I must have pressed it unconsciously so hard as almost to hurt her .