eight o'clock
`` It would have been a pity to have disappointed you in your fun , '' remarked Nat sarcastically after a particularly gleeful yelp from Ned . `` What you would have missed had she come ! '' `` But I ca n't understand it , '' said Dorothy . `` There is no other train until eight o'clock to-night . '' `` And that 's a local that stops at every white-washed fence , '' added Nat . `` Oh , well , then she 'll have plenty of time to think of the fine dinner she has missed , '' went on his brother . `` Of all mean traits , I count that of being late the very meanest a nice girl can have . ''