eight o'clock A.M.
`` I do n't wonder . I do n't quite know myself this morning , '' he replied brusquely . `` We have a picture of you , but it 's a long-ago one , and I thought by this time you would be old , and -- and bent over , you know , the way grandpas are . '' Even in that place of drays and at eight o'clock A.M. these words fell not disagreeably upon irritated ears . `` I think myself Nature did not intend me to be a grandpa , '' he replied . `` Oh , yes , you 're just the right kind , '' returned the child hastily and confidently . `` Strong and -- and handsome . ''