eight o'clock
Get her to sleep if you possibly can . '' And he had left a sleeping draught . Marcella resolved that she would persuade her to take it . `` But I will wake her before eight o'clock , '' she thought . `` No human being has the right to rob her of herself through that last hour . '' And tenderly she coaxed Minta to take the doctor 's `` medicine . '' Minta swallowed it submissively , asking no questions .