nine o'clock
He had been so , at least , that morning at nine o'clock . According to the porter at the club door , Mr. Gilmore called there every morning for his letters as soon as the club was open . He did not eat his breakfast in the house , nor , as far as the porter 's memory went , did he even enter the club . Fenwick had lodged himself at an hotel in the immediate neighbourhood of Pall-Mall , and he made up his mind that his only chance of catching his friend was to be at the steps of the club door when it was opened at nine o'clock . So he eat his dinner , -- very much in solitude , for on the 28th of August it is not often that the coffee rooms of clubs are full , -- and in the evening took himself to one of the theatres which was still open . His club had been deserted , and it had seemed to him that the streets also were empty . One old gentleman , who , together with himself , had employed the forces of the establishment that evening , had told him that there was n't a single soul left in London .