nine o’clock
They lived quite near the castle . ' ` Ah , then all is explained . I was riding past over the grass on the night of last Thursday , and I saw two persons in your studio with a light . It must have been about half-past nine o'clock . One of them came forward and pulled down the blind so that the light fell upon his face . But I only saw it for a short time . ' ` If it were Knowles or Cockton he would have had a beard . '