nine o'clock
`` Cecily Jayne , '' he murmured in a sleepy voice . `` What a pretty name , that is ! '' Their days were spent in work . Ninian and Roger left the house soon after nine o'clock , Ninian to go to the office of his engineering firm in Victoria Street , Roger to go to his chambers in the Temple , leaving Henry and Gilbert to work at home . In the evening , provided that there was not a `` first-night '' to call Gilbert to the theatre , they talked of themselves and of their future . Their egotism was undisguised . They had set their minds on a high destiny and were certain that they would achieve it , so they did not waste any energy , as Gilbert once said , in pretending that they were not remarkably able .