nine o'clock
We 'll celebrate the occasion with a dinner out ; we 'll go to a restaurant . Hanged if you shall have the trouble of cooking on such a day as this ! Get ready ; make yourself beautiful -- though you 're always that . We 'll dine early , as Piers has to leave us at nine o'clock . '' Outcries and gesticulations confirmed the happy thought . Tea over , Piers was dismissed to the bedroom -LRB- very bare and uncomfortable , this -RRB- to don his evening suit , and by six o'clock the trio set forth . They drove in a cab to festive regions , and , as one to the manner born , Alexander made speedy arrangements for their banquet .