eight o'clock in the morning
`` My ! this is dreadful , '' murmured Bess , when the train halted again for the drifts to be shoveled out of a cot . `` When do you s ` pose we 'll ever get home ? '' `` Not at eight o'clock in the morning , '' Nan announced promptly . `` That 's sure . I do n't know just how many miles it is -- and I never could tell anything about one of these railroad time-tables . '' `` Laura says she can read a menu card in a French restaurant more easily , '' chuckled Bess .