Nine o'clock
`` Ten o'clock ! to bed , to bed ! '' cried Jessica again . `` Nine o'clock ! -- let me run down the lane for a moment first , '' begged little Joan . Then Martin blew eighteen o'clock and said it was six o'clock tomorrow morning . And all the girls clapped their hands for joy -- all except Joscelyn , who sat quite by herself in a corner of the orchard , and neither blew nor listened .