nine o'clock
Now I wish you to have everything in readiness for her . I shall go in person to the depot and bring her home with me when I return in the evening . Of course it will be two hours later than usual when I get back here . You will , therefore , have the dinner put back until nine o'clock on this occasion . '' Cora bowed . She could scarcely trust her voice to answer in words . Mr. Rockharrt , absorbed in his own thoughts and plans , never noticed her coldness and silence .