nine o'clock
I accepted his advice , but I may admit that before I turned for home a sash was gently raised , a light had sprung up in one of the lower windows , and I heard Flurry 's voice saying , `` Over , over , over ! '' to his hounds . There seemed to me to be no interval at all between these events and the moment when I woke in bright sunlight to find Dr. Hickey standing by my bedside in a red coat with a tall glass in his hand . `` It 's nine o'clock , '' he said . `` I 'm just after waking Flurry Knox . There was n't one stirring in the hotel till I went down and pulled the ` boots ' from under the kitchen table ! It 's well for us the meet 's in the town ; and , by-the-bye , your grey horse has four legs on him the size of bolsters this morning ; he wo n't be fit to go out , I 'm afraid .