nine o'clock
So it had always been with Carrissima . Of any scheme , any opinion , any ambition of his , she invariably tended to think the best . If ever he accomplished anything more meritorious than usual , she was always the first to be told ; and when he happened to make a mistake , she would be certain to make light of it . At nine o'clock on Tuesday morning Mark had an appointment round the corner in Beaumont Street . Mr. Randolph Messeter had a serious operation to perform at a nursing home , and Mark was to administer the anaesthetic . All had gone well ; he had returned to Weymouth Street , and was in the act of putting away his apparatus , when the telephone bell rang . He was wanted immediately by Lady Scones , in Burnham Crescent , S.W. Sir Wilford Scones had been one of Doctor Harefield 's most lucrative patients , and naturally Mark felt gratified by the summons .