nine o'clock
But the world and its business thereof did not wait until the brief frost was over . It came to them that same night . For Kosmaroff was essentially of the active world , and carried with him wherever he went the spirit of unrest . He arrived on foot soon after nine o'clock . He was going on to Warsaw on foot the same night , he announced , before the greetings were over . `` And you have had nothing to eat , '' said Wanda , glancing at his spare , weather-beaten face . He was the impersonation of hardness and activity ; a man in excellent physical training , inured to cold and every hardship .