eight in the evening
`` So we can , '' said his brother , `` and I , too , accept your kind invitation , captain , with cordial thanks . '' `` Then let me advise you of Pleasant Plains to be on board here , bag and baggage , by eight , or at the latest nine , o'clock to-morrow morning , '' said Captain Raymond . `` We will be happy to have you take breakfast here with us , and we may as well be on our way across the lake while eating . Then I hope to have you at your destination by seven or eight in the evening , and , leaving you there , steam on down the river and up the lake , the rest of my passengers resting in their berths as usual . '' `` Then it will take about all of the next day to get to Mackinaw , wo n't it , papa ? '' asked Grace . `` Probably . ''