eight in the evening
He looked away , dissembling his joy in the question , and answered as if he were making an official report , -- `` I leave camp at six , patrol the line to the ferry and back , lay off an hour , and down again at eleven . Back in camp at three , and two hours for dinner . On again at five , and back in camp at nine . I pass this bridge , for instance , at seven and nine of a morning , twelve and two afternoons , and six and eight in the evening . '' `` Six and eight , '' Nancy mused , with a slight increase of color . `` Well , I can stop some evening after cow-time , I suppose ; but it is n't any matter about the basket . '' Six evenings , going and coming , Travis delayed in passing the bridge , on the watch for Nancy ; six times he filled the basket with such late field-flowers as he could find , and she never came .