eight o'clock
And I wish you could have seen the joy that spread over his homely face . Even the store eye seemed to be sparklin ' brighter 'n ever . Was he there ? Why , as we goes in to dinner at eight o'clock , I catches sight of him and Hermy holdin ' down chairs in the reception room . Well , you know how they pull off them affairs . After they 've stowed away about eleventeen courses , from grapefruit and sherry to demitasse and benedictine , them that can leave the table without wheel chairs wanders out into the front rooms , and the men light up fresh perfectos and hunt for the smokin ' den , and the women get together in bunches and exchange polite knocks . And in the midst of all that some one drifts casually up to the concert grand and cuts loose .