eight o'clock in the morning
I shall follow this letter and be impatiently waiting for it . Oh , Cornelia , am I not ever and entirely yours ? `` GEORGE HYDE . '' It was not more than eight o'clock in the morning when he wrote this letter , and as soon as possible he despatched a swift messenger with it to Cornelia . He hoped that she would receive it soon after the Doctor had left his home for his usual round of professional visits ; then she might possibly write to him at once , and if so , he would get the letter very soon after he reached the city . Probably Madame Hyde divined something of the importance and tenor of a missive sent in such a hurry of anxious love , so early in the day , but she showed neither annoyance nor curiosity regarding it . In the first place , she knew that opposition would only strengthen whatever resolve her son had made ; in the second place , she was conscious of a singular restlessness of her own spirit .