nine
o'clock
she asked darkly . `` Not yet , mistress , '' I replied . `` I like that word , '' she said then , `` you are always to call me mistress , do you understand ? We leave here to-morrow morning at nine o'clock . As far as the district capital you will be my companion and friend , but from the moment that we enter the railway-coach you are my slave , my servant . Now close the window , and open the door . '' After I had done as she had demanded , and after she had entered , she asked , contracting her brows ironically , `` well , how do you like me . ''