nine in the morning
`` Maybe even that is a job that will get itself done one of these days . '' Cai and his bride had departed , and the Major faced the ordeal of Regatta Day with much trepidation . Heaven help him to play his part like a man ! But it appeared that the sightseers , who , as ever , began to pour into the town at nine in the morning and passed the door in one steady , continuous stream until long past noonday , had either seen the Hymen Hospital before or were intent first on culling the more evanescent pleasures of the day . In fact , no visitor troubled him until one o'clock , when , in the lull between the starts of the sailing and the rowing races , and while the Regatta Committee was dining ashore to the strains of a brass band , a farm labourer in his Sunday best , crowned with a sugar-loaf hat , entered , flung himself into a chair , and demanded to have a tooth extracted . `` You needn ' mind which , '' he added encouragingly ; `` they all aches at times . Only do n't let it be more than one , for I ca n't afford it .