nine o'clock
`` What , were you there , too ? '' Strong asked , `` and before you came to Grosvenor-place ? That was beginning betimes . '' `` Early hours to be drunk and cleared out before nine o'clock , eh ? But so it was . Yes , like a great big fool , I must go there ; and found the fellows dining , Blackland and young Moss , and two or three more of the thieves . If we 'd gone to Rouge et Noir , I must have won .