about nine o'clock
`` There 's time enough . '' So Alice went to the dance . She found many other girl acquaintances there , and scores of boy friends among the members of the Upside Down Club . Bart , who had remained in his room all the evening , was started from a revery about nine o'clock by a whistle out in the street . `` There are the fellows ! '' he exclaimed , and , catching up his cap , and taking a package , from which sounded a mysterious scurrying and squealing , he went out . In front of his house he met Ned , Fenn and Frank .