nine o'clock
She could not eat , she felt as if she were suffocating . In the evening she was attacked by such an excruciating internal pain that she thought she must be dying . She thought this feeling of prostration was due to the fact that it was two days since she had seen Robert . It was only nine o'clock . She hoped that she might find him still at home , and put on her hat . `` Mamma , I have to go to the theatre this evening . I am off . ''