about
nine o'clock
`` I said we _ could _ . There are a great many things possible that are not advisable , '' returned the oracular young man . `` And I have heard the longest way round was the surest way home . We shall reach there about nine o'clock to-night . '' `` Like the old woman and her pig . I should laugh if we found mother already at Uncle Win 's . '' `` She 's going to wait for father , and something always happens to him . ''