about eight o'clock
`` Bert , we can take you around the lake with ease before we start for home . '' `` Yes , and you can have dinner with us , too , before you go , '' was the reply . `` Now do n't say ` No ' , for father and mother expect it , and so do I. '' `` All right , then , we 'll stay , '' answered Roger , after a look at Dave and Phil . `` We can start for home about eight o'clock , or half-past . '' The boys walked back to the hotel shed and got out the touring-car . Bert took the vacant seat beside Roger , and away the party bowled over the highway that ran around Lake Sargola . `` I wish we had a car , '' said Bert .