about nine o’clock
I now know that they are towns and villages in the East Connor division of Down , and my uncle has told me that this kind of expenditure is called nursing the constituency . The first definite news of my candidature came to me , curiously enough , from Lalage . She wrote me a letter during the Christmas holidays : `` There was a party -LRB- flappers , with dancing and a sit-down supper , not a Christmas tree -RRB- at Thormanby Park last night . I got a bit fed up with ` the dear girls ' -LRB- Cattersby 's expression -RRB- at about nine o'clock and slipped off with Hilda in hope of a cigarette . -LRB- Hilda 's mother 's cook got scarlatina , so she had to give in about Hilda coming here for the hols after all . Rather a climb down for her , I should say . -RRB- It was jolly lucky we did , as it turned out , though we did n't succeed in getting the whiff .