nine o'clock
Of course , matters did not end here . It was agreed that the major should leave his seat in the third car and occupy that next to mine in the first . We had already been two inhabitants of the same town ; well , we would become two neighbors in the house , or , rather , two friends in the same room . At nine o'clock the signal to start was given . The train leaving Kizil Arvat went off in a southwesterly direction towards Askhabad , along the Persian frontier . For another half hour the major and I continued to talk of one thing or another . He told me that if the sun had not set , I should have been able to see the summits of the Great and Little Balkans of Asia which rise above the bay of Krasnovodsk .