eight o'clock
`` We 're late ! I kept Marty waiting ! I 'm going to ride with the chauffeur , and Marty can sit with the girls . When Mrs. Wetherby says ` eight o'clock ' she means it , not quarter past . '' She was chatty and intensely friendly with them all during the brief drive . She even produced the proper degree of articulate mirth for the young father 's painstaking jest about his son 's nickname being Teddy b-a-r-e , bear , most of the time . When they stopped before the Wetherby house Martin was out of the automobile with heavy swiftness and lifted Jane bodily to the sidewalk and hurried her up the walk .