eight o'clock
Nine gentlemen to supper ! '' `` Nine ! Are they going to eat all that ? '' `` Well , I ca n't say -- that Mr. Amyas is as good as three to his trencher : but still there 's crumbs , Mr. Brimblecombe , crumbs ; and waste not want not is my doctrine ; so you and I may have a somewhat to stay our stomachs , about an eight o'clock . '' `` Eight ? '' said Jack , looking wistfully at the clock . `` It 's but four now .