eight o'clock
It was a dangerous piece of work , but it was not impossible . She had only to pass the inspectors . The guards inside were her friends . On Thursday night at eight o'clock a carriage drew up at the little red brick house , on whose door flashed the brass plate sign : ELIZABETH GARLAND , MODISTE She had made an appointment with Mrs. Lincoln 's dressmaker and arranged for it at this late hour . She must not be seen leaving her father 's house to-night . She drove rapidly to the Capitol , stopped her carriage at the north end , entered the building through the Senate wing , quickly passed out again , and in a few minutes had presented her pass to the commandant of the Old Capitol Prison . The woman inspector made the most thorough search and finding nothing suspicious , allowed her to enter the dimly lighted corridor of the death watch .