the 7:45 Monday evening
`` Monday or Tuesday of next week , '' replied Bert , consulting the letter . `` Either Monday afternoon or Tuesday morning . He 's going to stop at the ` Royal , ' and wants us to be on hand to meet him . He says in all probability he 'll arrive on the 7:45 Monday evening . And just make out we wo n't be on hand to give him a rousing welcome , what ? '' `` I rather guess we will , '' said Tom , `` and then some . I move that we hire a brass band and do the thing up right . ''