nine
o'clock
`` I should rather think so , '' said Jasper , lifting a bright face . `` I suppose now you do n't know what time it is , '' said the little Doctor . `` Oh , it 's early , I know , '' said Jasper , easily ; `` why , we have hardly got through supper , it seems to me . '' `` Then you must have been a good while at supper , '' said Doctor Fisher , composedly , and pulling out his big silver watch , `` for it 's nine o'clock . '' `` Nine o'clock ! '' exclaimed Jasper and Ben together . `` Fact . ''