about eight o'clock
`` Good ! I 've got the greatest little stunt you ever heard of to tell you about to-night . Pat suggested it , and I had to promise to try to put it through before he would agree to come down here . We 've got to go clean up for dinner now , but we 'll be around about eight o'clock . So long until then . '' `` So long , '' replied Walter , and hanging up the receiver he whooped joyously and proceeded to execute a war dance that ended with a crash as a rug slipped under his feet and he came down in a heap . It happened that at that very instant his father , just home from the office , opened the hall door briskly and a second later landed on Walter with a force that brought a grunt from each .