nine o'clock
She had only returned to fetch some article for a little niece of hers which Madame Staubach had given her . `` Aunt Charlotte , '' said Linda , `` I am very weary . You will not be angry , will you , if I go to bed ? '' `` It is not yet nine o'clock , my dear . '' `` But I am tired , and I fear that I shall lack strength for to-morrow . '' Oh , Linda , Linda ! But , indeed , had you foreseen the future , you might have truly said that you would want strength on the morrow .