eight o'clock
`` You 've simply got to do as we say in this matter , Billy . You 've done enough mischief already . '' And so it results that the message he sends by Uncle Jack is : `` Tell mother and Nan I 'll meet them at the ` hop . ' My confinements end at eight o'clock , but there 's no use in my going to the hotel and tramping through the mud . '' The truth is , he can not bear to meet Miriam Stanley , and ` twould be just his luck . One year ago no happier , bonnier , brighter face could have been seen at the Point than that of Nannie McKay . To-night , in all the throng of fair women and lovely girls , gathered with their soldier escort in the great mess-hall , there is none so sad .