about seven o'clock
`` Perhaps they have managed to shut the lion in the barn , '' said Snap . `` If they are circus men they would rather capture the lion than kill him , '' returned the doctor 's son . `` Lions must be worth a good deal of money . '' It was now about seven o'clock , and not as light as it had been . A few minutes passed and the men did not seem to be doing anything . `` Do you know what I think ? '' declared Whopper .