nine o'clock
`` Quite right , '' was the Captain 's comment on this . `` There are a lot of light-fingered gentry about here , whom it is just as well to be on guard against . When will it be flood-tide to-night , Hellyer , eh ? '' `` Nigh upon nine o'clock , sir , '' answered he . `` Just afore the moon rises . '' `` Humph ! '' muttered Captain Dresser , as if cogitating the matter and speaking his thoughts aloud .