eight o'clock
`` I had Chet up to supper again . He still choked on words of one syllable if Nettie so much as glanced at him , and turned all sorts of painful colours like a cheap rug . But I keep thinking the piece will fix that all right . `` At eight o'clock Wilbur sifted in with his records and something else flat and thin , done up in paper that I did n't notice much at the time . My dear heart , how serious he was ! As serious as -- well , I chanced to be present at the house of mourning when the barber come to shave old Judge Armstead after he 'd passed away -- you know what I mean -- kind of like him Wilbur was , talking subdued and cat-footing round very solemn and professional . I thought he 'd never get that machine going .