nine o'clock
`` The horrid , impudent thing ! '' she said aloud . `` And I never gave him a word or a look to make him think it ! '' At nine o'clock Dulcie took a tin box of crackers and a little pot of raspberry jam out of her trunk , and had a feast . She offered General Kitchener some jam on a cracker ; but he only looked at her as the sphinx would have looked at a butterfly -- if there are butterflies in the desert . `` Do n't eat it if you do n't want to , '' said Dulcie . `` And do n't put on so many airs and scold so with your eyes .