nine o'clock
Just then Mrs. Wegstaffe saw me . `` You 're just the man I 'm looking for , '' said she hurriedly . `` Now be a good fellow ; do go and tell all those people in the other room to stop talking . It 's nine o'clock , and we 're a half hour behind time . '' Before I could expostulate she had gone , leaving me in the same condition as the long-haired young man I had just derided . `` How tell them to stop talking ? '' I madly asked myself .