about nine o'clock
Come home with me , and we will have a quiet dinner together . '' `` No . I need to be alone an hour or two . Call on me about nine o'clock . '' Petralto 's rooms were a little astonishment to me . They were luxurious in the extreme , with just that excess of ornament which suggests under-civilization ; and yet I found him smoking in a studio destitute of everything but a sleepy-looking sofa , two or three capacious lounging chairs , and the ordinary furniture of an artist 's atelier . There was a bright fire in the grate , a flood of light from the numerous gas jets , and an atmosphere heavy with the seductive , fragrant vapor of Havana .