nine o'clock
`` Done right ! '' said Bertram ; `` yes , I suppose she has ; right enough at least as far as I am concerned . After all , what husband is so convenient as a barber 's block ? '' On the following morning they steamed up the Southampton river , and at nine o'clock they were alongside the quay . All manner of people had come on board in boats , and the breakfast was eaten in great confusion . But few of the ladies were to be seen . They had tea and rolls in their own cabins , and did not appear till the last moment .