nine o'clock
`` What time does your service begin ? '' asked the teacher . `` What time do you leave the house ? '' `` It takes in at nine o'clock -- '' Miss Lee smothered an ejaculation of surprise . `` But we leave the house a little after half-past eight . Then we can go easy up the hill and have time to walk around on the graveyard a little and get in church early and watch the people come in . '' `` I 'll stop for you and go with you , Phœbe . ''