nine o'clock
`` Do n't forget you 're dining with me to-morrow . '' `` Not likely . '' `` What are you doing to-night ? '' `` Going to bed at nine o'clock to sleep the clock round . I 'm awfully tired . '' She stood quite still for many minutes after Alice had gone , and shut her eyes . In a quick series of moving pictures she saw thousands of little lights and swaying people and clashing colors , and caught snatches of lilting music and laughter .