about nine o’clock
Tonight Yves is off duty three hours earlier than I ; occasionally this happens , according to the arrangement of the watches . At those times he lands first , and goes up to wait for me at Diou-djen-dji . From the deck I can see him through my glass , climbing up the green mountain-path ; he walks with a brisk , rapid step , almost running ; what a hurry he seems in to rejoin little Chrysantheme ! When I arrive , about nine o'clock , I find him seated on the floor , in the middle of my rooms , with naked torso -LRB- this is a sufficiently proper costume for private life here , I admit -RRB- . Around him are grouped Chrysantheme , Oyouki , and Mademoiselle Dede the maid , all eagerly rubbing his back with little blue towels decorated with storks and humorous subjects . Good heavens ! what can he have been doing to be so hot , and to have put himself in such a state ?