nine o'clock
`` You did n't shoot at those people , did you ? '' I asked . `` No ; but well , you see , Dennison is better than I am at getting in for a row , and I am better at getting out of it . '' `` He 's a low-down hound , '' I asserted , and after promising to be in at nine o'clock I seized my gown and went away . As I went into the hall I met Collier , and during dinner I expressed my opinion of Dennison very freely . There are times at Oxford when you regret most tremendously that you have left school , and this was one of them . `` A fellow like that would be kicked at any decent school , '' I said .