the evening, about eight o'clock
`` Bacha Filina , take me along to meet Grandfather , '' begged Ondrejko , when Bacha was getting ready in the afternoon . `` I am going on foot ; that would be too far for you , my boy , '' said Bacha , stroking the boy 's head . `` You just remain with your mother and wait for your grandfather here . At the station I shall take a carriage ; I think that in the evening , about eight o'clock , we shall be here . '' Bacha kissed the boy , though he usually did not do so , and in a moment his giant-like figure disappeared in the thicket by the clearing . He picked the shortest way over paths well-known to him , but still it took about two hours before he reached the main road leading to J -- . There he suddenly stopped .