ten o'clock at night
`` I 'm sorry you wo n't stay until my father gets back , '' spoke Dick . `` I expect him tomorrow , or next day . '' `` Well , if I stayed I know my hired man would waste a lot of feed on the horses , '' said Uncle Ezra . `` And every time I go away he sits up and burns his kerosene lamp until almost ten o'clock at night . And oil has gone up something terrible of late . '' `` Well , I hope you 'll come and see us again , '' invited Dick , as his uncle started to go . `` But wo n't you let me send you to the station in the auto ?