nine o'clock
Father came home and had his tea after we had done ours , and then he came up into the parlor and watched us dancing . Mr. Dayton came in , too . At about half past eight some of the other fathers called , and some of the mothers sent their girls , and everybody was fetched away . It was nine o'clock when Laura and I went to bed , and we could n't go to sleep until after the clock struck ten , for thinking and saying what a beautiful time we had had , and anticipating how the girls would talk it all over next day at school . That , '' said Mrs. Ripwinkley , when she had finished , `` was the kind of a party we used to have in Boston when I was a little girl . I do n't know what the little girls have now . '' `` Boston ! ''