9 A.M.
`` It 's curious I never thought of it before , '' he said , `` but my father , had a habit of jotting down notes in it on important occasions . It may be of some use to us Honora . '' She opened it at random and read : `` July 5 , 1893 , Picnic at Psalter 's Falls . Temperature 71 at 9 A.M. Bar . 30 . Weather clear . Charles left for Washington , summons from President , in the midst of it .