nine o'clock
I am not too proud to accept your help in the hour of my need . '' `` You will write to me , then , at my mother 's , or you will write to my mother herself , if ever you require assistance . I shall tell my mother nothing of what has passed between us this day , except that we have parted . You are going by the half-past nine o'clock train , you say , Miss Wilmot ? '' Clement had only spoken the truth when he said that he was a proud man . He asked this question in the same business-like tone in which he might have addressed a lady who was quite indifferent to him . `` Yes , Mr. Austin . ''