nine o'clock
* * * * * As Gwynne left his room the Japanese `` chambermaid , '' who had been about to knock , informed him that Miss Otis awaited him below . He ran down-stairs and found her still on her horse . Abe held another horse by the bridle . `` It is nine o'clock -- '' began Isabel , but Gwynne interrupted her , rarely apologetic . `` I hardly slept . There was such an infernal racket . A theatrical troupe -- '' `` There generally is .