Nine o’clock
If laws had any effect on life , as Gorman pretends to believe , he would make one which would do away with Ascher . But he knows in his heart that he might just as well make a law forbidding the wind to blow from the east . Instead of taking any notice of my question he pulled out his watch and looked at it . `` Nine o'clock , '' he said . `` I must be off to the House at once . An important division has been arranged for a quarter past . Just ask your man to call a taxi , will you ? ''