two o'clock
`` You can go , Jack ; besides , you will be in early anyhow . We will do the tarring without you . '' JACK ran home . `` I thought you would have been in by two o'clock , Jack , '' his mother said reproachfully , `` so as to see Lily before she went off to school again . '' `` So I should have done , mother , but I had to stick at the work until we had finished up to the water-line . Uncle Ben thought it was not worth while knocking off . '' Jack 's meal of bread and bacon was soon finished , then he waited a little until Lily had returned from school .