nine o'clock
The apple-woman had been out to buy some groceries and had just returned . `` I am getting anxious about Dodger , '' said Florence . `` It is nine o'clock . '' `` And what 's nine o'clock for a boy like him ? Shure he 's used to bein ' out at all hours of the night . '' `` I shall feel relieved when he comes home . What should I do without him ? ''