nine o'clock
`` Arenta would hardly have given you any opportunity . I wonder at what hour she will release Joris Van Heemskirk ! '' `` It will be later than it ought to be . '' Indeed it was so late that Madame Van Heemskirk had locked up her house for the night , and was troubled at her husband 's delay -- even a little cross : `` An old man like you , Joris , '' she said in a tone of vexation -- `` sitting till nine o'clock with the last runaway from Paris ; a cold you have already , and all for a girl that threw her senses behind her , to marry a Frenchman . '' `` Much she has suffered , Lysbet . '' `` Much she ought to suffer . And I believe not in Arenta Van Ariens ' suffering .