Nine o’clock
`` That is too late for me , monsieur . '' `` Any other hour would be too early for me . I do not like to have my habits disturbed . Nine o'clock or not at all , as you please . '' `` But I must be at the Assembly at nine , for the morning session . '' `` I am afraid , monsieur , you will have to kill me first , and I have a prejudice against being killed before nine o'clock . '' Now this was too complete a subversion of the usual procedure for M. de Chabrillane 's stomach .