nine o'clock
`` Are you fond enough to kiss me ? '' Helen asked . She wanted a touch at which she need not shudder , and surely it was fitting that some one should kiss her on her wedding-day . Soon after nine o'clock , Helen bade Mildred Caniper and the nurse good-night and went downstairs with Jim close at her heels . `` We 're going to sit in the kitchen , James . I 'll get my sewing . '' She hesitated at the window : the night was very dark , but she could see the violent swaying of the poplars , and she thought the thickening of their twigs was plain and , though it was April already , it was going to snow .