about nine o'clock
`` Well , they 're not likely to disturb my slumbers -- unless -- there was a rather queer thing happened , last night , Colin . '' `` Here ? '' `` Yes ! -- I got in to Hampton , in the evening ; about nine o'clock , I was returning to Clarendon when , at the gates , I was accosted by a tall , well-dressed stranger . Here is the substance of our talk ... . What do you make of it ? '' he ended .