nine o'clock in the
morning
`` I thought you would n't have left home yet , '' said Godfrey , with a nervous laugh . `` I had a letter from Applegarth last night , which I wanted you to see at once . '' He handed it , and Will , glancing over the sheet , found only an unimportant discussion of a small detail . `` Well , that 's all right , '' he said , `` but I do n't see that it need have brought you from Wimbledon to Chelsea before nine o'clock in the morning . Are n't you getting a little overstrung , old man ? '' Godfrey looked it . His face was noticeably thinner than a month ago , and his eyes had a troubled fixity such as comes of intense preoccupation .