Nine o'clock
`` I suppose now you do n't know what time it is , '' said the little Doctor . `` Oh , it 's early , I know , '' said Jasper , easily ; `` why , we have hardly got through supper , it seems to me . '' `` Then you must have been a good while at supper , '' said Doctor Fisher , composedly , and pulling out his big silver watch , `` for it 's nine o'clock . '' `` Nine o'clock ! '' exclaimed Jasper and Ben together . `` Fact . '' Doctor Fisher nodded so briskly that his spectacles slipped down to the end of his nose , `` And so it 's time for you to hop into bed , Jasper . ''