eight o'clock
Ask them at eight . That will be one hour 's respite . God help me , and strengthen poor Arthur to bear the blow I bring him ! '' Long before eight o'clock that day , Arthur Wardlaw had passed from a state of somber misery and remorse to one of joy , exultation and unmixed happiness . He no longer regretted his crime , nor the loss of the _ Proserpine . _ Helen was alive and well , and attributed not her danger , but only her preservation , to the Wardlaws . Wardlaw senior kept his carriage in town , and precisely at eight o'clock they drove up to the door of the hotel .