nine o’clock
`` Coffin -- no ! '' was the girl 's reply . `` The shell ai n't here yet . Mr. Jones did n't promise that till nine o'clock , and it have n't gone eight . '' `` It wo n't be long , '' quoth they ; `` its on its road . We 'll go up to his lordship 's room , please , and be getting ready for it . '' The girl called the butler .