nine o'clock
`` Of course I should have known without asking . Now do n't fret about it . To bed , to bed , to bed ! We shall have to be up early to-morrow if we are to be in court by nine o'clock . '' He was smiling , as he said this , with his old gaiety , but I suspected he was only putting it on to cheer me , as I now understand Señora Mendez had done when she had taken me shopping . After I got up-stairs I could n't sleep . At about ten o'clock I heard the door-bell ring , then long heavy steps going down the hall , and the shutting of a door which I guessed to be the door of the study .