eight o'clock
`` I congratulate you , old boy . At the same time , it is evident that she would not have been worth her salt if she had arrived at any other conclusion . Now , having settled that comfortably , let us go and have something to eat . You appear to forget altogether that you have had nothing since breakfast , and it is now past eight o'clock . '' `` You boys think of nothing but eating , '' Harry grumbled . `` Well , up till now , Harry , from the time we started , I have observed that you have a very healthy appetite yourself , and I can tell you it has cost me half a dollar in bribing the cook to stay on beyond his usual hour . I did not like to tell him that you were engaged in reading a love-letter fifty times , so I put it delicately and said that you were engaged in business of importance .