nine o'clock
`` Little Fun is a great swell now , and much enamored of our fat friend , who will take to chopsticks whenever he says the word . I need n't ask how you do , Cousin , for you beat that Aurora all hollow in the way of color . I should have been up before , but I thought you 'd like a good rest after your voyage . '' `` I was running a race with Jamie before nine o'clock . What were you doing , young man ? '' `` ` Sleeping I dreamed , love , dreamed , love , of thee , ' '' began Charlie , but Rose cut him short by saying as reproachfully as she could , while the culprit stood regarding her with placid satisfaction : `` You ought to have been up and at work like the rest of the boys . I felt like a drone in a hive of very busy bees when I saw them all hurrying off to their business . ''