nine o'clock
Come to see me . '' `` Madeleine Forestier . '' Nothing more . He received it at nine o'clock . At three o'clock of the same day he called at her house . She extended both hands to him with a sweet smile , and they gazed into each other 's eyes for several seconds , then she murmured : `` How kind of you to come ! '' He replied : `` I should have come , whensoever you bade me . ''