Nine o’clock
`` A soft , quick , trembling knock at the street door ! I know who it is . No hand but old Bashwood 's could knock in that way . '' `` Nine o'clock . -- I have just got rid of him . He has surprised me by coming out in a new character . `` It seems -LRB- though I did n't detect him -RRB- that he was at the great house while I was in company with Armadale .