About nine o'clock
They 're all right , sir , I 'll be bound . The Doctor-in-Law is too wide awake for anything to happen to them while he is with them . '' I walked home somewhat easier in my mind now that I knew the party had returned safely , though still somewhat anxious as to their whereabouts . About nine o'clock it began to get quite dark , and I was just setting out to see if I could find any trace of them when General Mary Jane returned . -LSB- Illustration : `` AND DONKEY RIDES '' -RSB- `` Oh , sir ! '' she exclaimed directly she saw me , `` what do you think ? His Majesty and the Doctor-in-Law and the others are down at the fair by Hammersmith Bridge , and they are ` aving such a lark .