eight o'clock
`` No , sir , '' said Dan . `` These are the Hammonds who live over by the bridge . There 's just two kids , Marg ` ret and Joe , and their father . Joe served the eight o'clock Mass with me one week , -- you know , Jim , the week you were sick . '' `` Sure , '' said Jim . `` Hammond 's a nice feller . '' Their father scraped his chin with a fat hand .