nine o'clock
She had no time-table , but she remembered Major Arms arriving once , and she was quite certain that the train was due at eight-seventeen . It might , of course , be late . She reflected , with a sense of solid comfort , that the trains were rather more apt to be late than not . She need not give up hope of her father 's arriving on this train until even nine o'clock , for besides the possibility of the lateness there was also that of his walking rather than taking a carriage from the station . In fact , he would probably walk , since he was still in Samson Rawdy 's debt . She might allow at least twenty minutes for the walk from the station . She might allow more even than that .