nine o'clock in the morning
`` What for is my business , '' Philip answered . `` Your business ? '' Polatkin exclaimed . `` At nine o'clock in the morning one partner puts on his hat and starts to go out , _ verstehst du _ , and when the other partner asks him where he is going it 's his business , _ sagt er _ ! What do you come down here at all for , Scheikowitz ? '' `` I am coming down here because I got such a partner , Polatkin , which if I was to miss one day even I would n't know where I stand at all , '' Scheikowitz retorted . `` Furthermore , you should n't worry yourself , Polatkin ; for my own sake I would come back just so soon as I could . ''