nine o'clock in
the morning
he added . `` I was ordered to Varick Manor , '' I said , looking at Sir George . `` Otherwise I might have followed Arnold . As it is I can not stay for the wedding ; I must report at Stillwater , leaving by nine o'clock in the morning . '' `` Lord , Ormond , what a fire-eater you have become ! '' he said , smiling from his abstraction . `` Are you ready to mount Ruyven 's nag and come home to a good bed and a glass of something neat ? ''