about eight o'clock
I 'll tell you how we will arrange , Desmond . What the order means is that two officers must stop with their company . It does n't matter in the least who they are ; so that there are two out of the three with the men . Dancing will begin about eight o'clock . I will look in there at nine . An hour will be enough for me ; so I will come back to the company , and you can slip away and stop there till it 's over . '' `` Thank you very much , '' Desmond said gratefully .