nine o'clock in the morning
`` The horse can follow . Let us walk a little . It is a good thing to walk . '' It was nine o'clock in the morning , and the weather was getting hot . And it is said that the heat of Peshawur is beyond the heat of any other city from the hills to Cape Comorin . Futteh Ali Shah , however , could not refuse . Regretfully he signalled to his own groom who stood apart in charge of a fine dark bay stallion from the Kirghiz Steppes .