eight o'clock
`` The suite was unoccupied all the afternoon ? '' `` Yes ; I am rarely here in the afternoon . '' `` What time did you come up here after dinner ? '' `` It was probably eight o'clock , for Dad was telling a rather interesting story at table , and we sat a long time . Mother is away on a visit to the Pacific coast . '' `` And your father went to his room then ? '' `` Yes ; he said he had some work to do . ''