nine o'clock
`` None that I can make out yet , Sir . '' `` Then slow to eight knots . We 'll jog down to forty-nine , forty-five , or four about , and three east . That puts us say forty miles from Torbay by nine o'clock to-morrow morning . We 'll have to muck about till dusk before we run in and try our luck with the cruisers . '' `` Yes , Sir . Their picket boats will be panickin ' round them all night .