eight o'clock
`` Vell -- you ca n't tell . Sometimes it is more late as udder times -- about nine o'clock ven I have packing to do . '' O'Day shook his head . `` Vell , den , say eight o'clock . '' Again O'Day shook his head slowly and thoughtfully as if some insurmountable obstacle had suddenly arisen before him . Then he said firmly : `` I am afraid I must decline your kind offer , Mr. Kling . The latest I could stay on any evening is seven o'clock -- some days I might have to leave at six -- certainly no later than half past .