Eight o'clock
Now , Pink , I think we 'll overhaul those chestnuts , -- if you 've no objection . '' It was very exciting , getting the roasted fruit out from among the ashes and coals , burning their fingers , counting the chestnuts , and eating them ; and then Norton prepared a second batch , that they might , as he said , have some to give to Mr. Richmond . Eating and cooking , a great deal of talk went on all the while . Eight o'clock came , and nine ; and still not Mr. Richmond . Norton went out to look at the weather , as far as the piazza steps ; and came in powdered with snow . It was thickly falling , he said ; so the two children went to work again . It was impossible to sit there with the chestnuts and not eat them ; so Norton roasted a third quantity .