two in the evening
`` And Jo can be nice to Mrs. bishop . I do n't see why your men wo n't come . It 's so hard to get men for anything except sports in summer . How perfectly absurd it is for Jarvis Burnside to prefer hoeing potatoes in this frightful sun to playing society man for an hour or two in the evening ! '' `` It 's truly incomprehensible , but so it is . Besides , he looks like an Indian , and in his evening clothes would resemble a fiend . Be satisfied , Dorothy , now you have us for victims , and let the men stay at home . ''