about ten o'clock
`` Not on this train , '' his father answered . `` We 'll be in Chicago in time for dinner . '' Breakfast over , the Bobbseys began gathering up their different things to be ready to get out at Chicago when the train should reach that big and busy city . It was about ten o'clock when the station was reached , and the Bobbsey twins thought they had never been in such a noisy place , nor one in which there were more people . But Daddy Bobbsey had traveled to Chicago before , and he knew just what to do and where to go . He called an automobile , and in that the whole family rode to the hotel where they were to stay while they were in the city . Two days were to be spent in Chicago , which Mrs. Bobbsey had not visited for some time .