eight o'clock
Give 'em bread and cheese . They 're none of 'em greedy . '' `` I 'll give you something better than that , '' said Rose ; `` on your birthday -- the idea ! '' Dinner was to be at eight o'clock . The lateness of the hour enabled Mr. and Mrs. Eldred to come up and give a hand with the waiting and the dishing-up . They had softened towards Tanqueray since he had taken that little house . That he should give a dinner-party in it during the middle of the removal was no more than they expected of his eccentricity .