nine o'clock
You are fond of poetry , Lina ? '' `` When I meet with _ real _ poetry , I can not rest till I have learned it by heart , and so made it partly mine . '' Mr. Moore now sat silent for several minutes . It struck nine o'clock . Sarah entered , and said that Mr. Helstone 's servant was come for Miss Caroline . `` Then the evening is gone already , '' she observed , `` and it will be long , I suppose , before I pass another here . '' Hortense had been for some time nodding over her knitting ; fallen into a doze now , she made no response to the remark .