nine o'clock
`` Your citadel , Don Francis , '' she said , `` your refuge from my heedless tongue . Your chocolate shall be brought to you here , but we hope you will give yourself the trouble to dine with us . Generally my husband sups too late for your convenience . He is always at the cafe till nine o'clock . He sits there with his friends and hears the news , which he knows beforehand as well as they do . And when they have done , he tells it all over again to them . This is the way with men ; and I sit at home and make my clothes .