about nine o'clock
By some fatality she contrived to call either on a Sunday when they had all gone to Wandsworth or on a Saturday when Ransome was not there . Once or twice in summer , when he was kept at the counting-house during stock-taking or the sales -LRB- for Woolridge 's season of high pressure came months earlier than Starker 's -RRB- , Winny had dropped in toward supper-time , when Violet had asked her to keep her company . But she always left before Ranny could get back , because Violet told her -LRB- as if she did n't know it -RRB- that Ranny would be too tired to see her home . One Saturday evening in August he had come in about nine o'clock after a turn on Wimbledon Common . Granville with its gate , its windows , and all its doors flung open , had a scared , abandoned look . A strange sound came from Granville , the sound of a low singing from upstairs , from -- yes , it was from the front bedroom . He went through the lower rooms and out into the garden .