nine
o’clock
She descended to the drawing-room , where her mother was reading , and after playing over a couple of songs as a camouflage , she pretended to be tired and announced her intention of retiring . `` We have to go into Edinburgh to-morrow morning , '' her mother remarked . `` So we should start pretty early . I 've ordered the car for nine o'clock . '' `` All right , mother . Good-night , '' said the girl as she closed the door . Then hastening to her room she threw off her dinner gown , and putting on a coat and skirt and the boots which she had worn when fishing that morning , she went out by a door which led from the great old library , with its thousands of brown-backed volumes , on to the broad terrace which overlooked the glen , now a veritable fairyland beneath the light of the moon .