nine o'clock
Jack was silent . Jack held himself loyally in hand that evening , but he could not talk much . He consented to explain to his mother that Frank had to be off after dinner that night , and he also visited the housekeeper 's room , and caused a small bundle , not much larger than a leg of mutton , including two small bottles which jingled together , to be wrapped up in brown paper -- in which he inserted also a five-pound note -LRB- he knew Frank would not take more -RRB- -- and the whole placed in the bag in which Frank 's old clothes were already concealed . For the rest of the evening he sat , mostly silent , in one chair , trying not to watch Frank in another ; pretending to read , but endeavoring to picture to his imagination what he himself would feel like if he were about to join the Major and Gertie in the churchyard at nine o'clock ... . Frank sat quite quiet all the evening , reading old volumes of _ Punch _ . They dined at half-past seven , by request -- Frank still in his homespun suit . Fanny and Jill were rather difficult .