nine o'clock
One of the two trained nurses installed at Mereside had been called away to the bedside of a sick father . Another had been wired for immediately , but between the going and the coming a night would intervene . So much Griswold got from Margery over the Iron Works telephone late in the afternoon of a day thickly besprinkled with the sidewalk waylayings and riotings . When he reached his Shawnee Street lodgings at nine o'clock that night he found Miss Grierson 's phaeton standing at the curb . `` Get in , '' she said , briefly , making room for him in the basket seat . And when the mare had been given the word to go : `` I hope you are not too tired to chaperon me . I 've got to drive over to the college infirmary .