nine o'clock
Tell Don , please , I 've gone to Josie 's -- Oh , and Josie and I would like to have him come over after tea . He need n't though , if he feels very tired , for Josie says Michael can bring me home . '' `` Very well , my dear . If Donald is not there by half-past nine o'clock , do not expect him . Wait ; I 'll escort you to the carriage . '' `` COME into the study , Donald , '' said Uncle George , after their lonely supper , -- lonely even to Lydia , who presided at the tea-tray wondering how Mr. G. could have been so thoughtless as to let that child go out . `` We can have no better opportunity than this for our talk .