hour from six to nine
`` At what time will it be most convenient for you to come . '' `` Why -- er -- when do you dine ? '' `` Whenever Señor Scott chooses , '' bowed the man with the snowy hair . `` Any hour from six to nine will please me . '' `` Well , I 'll be along between six and half-past , '' said Scott , and then wondered why he had said it . `` It is well , '' bowed Lazaro , rising . `` I will now intrude no more on your precious time . ''