seven o'clock
Now , he felt like the engine itself , and long before six o'clock he was dressed , and waiting anxiously for his grandmother 's permission to start . ' ` I 'll tell you all about it , ' he said to her . ` What they do , and what they say , and what they wear , and if I can , I 'll speak to Mr. Arthur Tracy and thank him for mother 's grave-stone . ' By seven o'clock he was on his way to the park , walking rapidly , and occasionally saying aloud with a gesture of his hand to the right and the left , and a bow almost to the ground . ` Ladies this way , ' and ` gentlemen that . ' When he reached the house the gas-jets had just been turned up , and every window was ablaze with light from the attic to the basement . ` My eye !