nine o'clock
Neither with her father , nor with Olga , did she speak of what had passed . Before going to bed , she packed carefully a large dress-basket and a travelling-bag , which a servant brought down for her from the box-room . Again she slept , but only for an hour or two , and at seven in the morning she rose . The breakfast hour was nine o'clock . Dr. Derwent , as usual , came down a few minutes before , and turned over the letters lying for him on the table . Among them he found an envelope addressed in a hand which looked very much like Irene 's ; it had not come by post . As he was reading the note it contained , Eustace and Olga Hannaford entered together , talking .