nine o'clock
`` Oh yes , I wish you would ; and I will run over , if all is well with her -- well with her ? poor unfortunate girl ! '' Lady Cicely saw he wished her gone , and she went directly . At nine o'clock that same evening , as she lay on a sofa in the best room of the inn , attended by her maid , Dr. Philip Staines came to her . She dismissed her maid . Dr. Philip was too old , in other words , had lost too many friends , to be really broken down by bereavement ; but he was strangely subdued . The loud tones were out of him , and the loud laugh , and even the keen sneer .