nine o'clock
Joey interrupted him . `` The devil 's to pay in another direction , Dick , '' he said . `` Bob Grand ` as ` eard that Brad 's out and that he 's been ` anging around his ` otel , nasty-like . Who should come to my ` ouse in a cab at nine o'clock to-night but Bob Grand ` isself . He finds me alone , Ruby being off with ` er young man . When I sees who is coming up my steps , I almost keels over . The first words he says took my breath away .