nine o'clock
`` Come on then , old lady . Gee , this beats hanging poor old Florence Dombey under the willows . Give me your hand and I 'll tow you along . '' It was scarcely nine o'clock , after all , when they trudged into the camp . Charlie and Gustus came in a moment later , having heard Miss Towne 's call . `` Oh , Lydia ! Lydia !