eight o'clock
`` Well , '' rejoined Dorothy , `` it 's just this . You see , I promised -- '' `` You said all that before , '' interrupted Alfy again . `` Be still , Alfy , or I just wo n't tell , '' scolded Dorothy . `` Mr. Ludlow is coming here at eight o'clock to take us all to the opera . Miss Boothington , Ruth , is going also . He told me to tell you all , and I just guess I must have since then forgotten . I do n't see how I did , but I just did .