nine in the morning
If anything should happen to him , if he should need help of any sort , what could he do ? Call out ? But who would hear ? At nine in the morning the porter 's wife would come with his tea . But if anything should happen to him in the meantime ? There would be nothing for it but to wait till nine o'clock . Ah , if he had married , if he had had children , a wife , a home of his own , instead of these desolate bachelor chambers !