nine o'clock
`` They 'll make it worse , '' Joe answered . And then as he turned to me once more he added very bitterly , `` You 'll see strength enough in the people some day . '' A few moments later he left me . I looked at my watch and found it was not yet nine o'clock . I went to Eleanore Dillon . And within an hour Joe and his world of crowds and confusion were swept utterly out of my mind . I had often told Eleanore of Joe .