eight o'clock
`` For one thing , he 's often out about this time . '' `` Not often -- just now and again , when he wants to buy something , '' snapped out Mrs. Bunting . `` But I had n't forgot his supper . He never do want it before eight o'clock . '' `` Let me take up the lodger 's supper , Ellen , '' Daisy 's eager voice broke in . She had got up in obedience to her stepmother , and was now laying the cloth . `` Certainly not !