nine o'clock
* * * * * Meanwhile , ten miles away , along the Uppingham and Leicester track , rode a young man through the dark . Sunday , too , passed as usual . At half-past eight the bells of the church pealed out for the morning service , and the village street was thronged with worshippers and a few soldiers . At nine o'clock they ceased , and the street was empty . At eleven o'clock the trumpets sounded to announce change of guard , and to tell the kitchen folk that dishing-time was come . Half an hour later once more the little procession glinted a moment through the ground-floor window of the Queen 's stair as her Grace went to dinner . -LRB- She was not very well , the cooks had reported , and had eaten but little last night . -RRB-