eight o'clock
`` Then I count on you . Now I must send a sympathetic telegram to that poor dear Velma , who will be fretting at having to fail us . So ` au revoir , ' good people . Remember , we dine punctually at eight o'clock . Music is supposed to begin at nine . Ronnie , be a kind boy , and carry Tommy into the hall for me . He will screech so fearfully if he sees me walk away without him .