about eight
in the morning
` Addison , ' she exclaimed , ` you are getting to be quite a young man ! ' `` But I guess if the truth were known , '' Addison continued sapiently , `` that no oldish people like to be called grandpa and grandma very well , till they get to be as much as eighty years old . Then they seem to enjoy it . '' Grandmother provided but two meals on Sunday : breakfast at about eight in the morning , and dinner at three in the afternoon . Consequently we were sitting down to dinner , with very good appetites , judging the others by my own , when one seat was seen to be vacant . `` Where 's Halstead ? '' the Old Squire asked .