nine o'clock
It was a memento-factory , and the stock was large , cheap , and varied . I bought the usual paper-cutter to remember the place by , and had Mont Blanc , the Mauvais Pas , and the rest of the region branded on my alpenstock ; then we descended to the valley and walked home without being tied together . This was not dangerous , for the valley was five miles wide , and quite level . We reached the hotel before nine o'clock . Next morning we left for Geneva on top of the diligence , under shelter of a gay awning . If I remember rightly , there were more than twenty people up there . It was so high that the ascent was made by ladder .