about nine o'clock
Good-bye . '' Then to the porch ran Norma , crying to Gracie , excitedly : `` Oh , sister , Mrs. Jackson has invited us -- you and me -- to go with her and Flora and Tommy for a long automobile ride . We are to stop on the beach -- down at Blake Island -- and have a picnic supper by moonlight . We 'll return home about nine o'clock . Wo n't that be splendid ? I know mamma will be so happy to have us go , so I accepted for both of us . Mamma wo n't be home for over an hour .