seven o'clock
`` Oh , but we all want the stories now ! '' exclaimed several voices . Margaret laughed . `` Do you know , '' she said , `` it is only a little past seven o'clock , and we can not expect poor Betty to tell stories for close on two hours ? We 'll play all sorts of pleasant and exciting games until eight o'clock , and then perhaps Betty will keep her word . '' Betty had purposely asked to be excused from joining in these games , and every one said she understood the reason . Betty was too precious and valuable and altogether fascinating to be expected to rush about playing Blind-Man 's Buff , and Puss-in-the-Corner , and Charades , and Telegrams , and all those games which schoolgirls love .