eight o'clock
Agnes said that it would delay the cooking of the chicken , and attributed the scorching to the quantity of coal which Miss Innes would keep adding . If she put any more on she would not be answerable that the chimney would not catch fire . Every seven or eight minutes the chicken was taken out to be basted . The bluey-whitey look of the flesh which Evelyn had disliked had disappeared ; the chicken was acquiring a rich brown colour which she much admired , and if it had not been for Agnes , who told her the dinner would be delayed till eight o'clock , she would have had the chicken out every five minutes , so much did she enjoy pouring the rich , bubbling juice over the plump back . `` Father ! Father , dinner is ready ! I 've got a sole and a chicken .