nine o'clock
Last night she put her hand under that sort of night-shirt she wears and whips out a knife with a kind of a curl in the blade , so I whips out my revolver , and we walks round and round each other till at last she bursts out laughing . It is n't nice treatment for a Christian man to have to put up with from a savage , however handsome she may be , but it is what people must expect as is _ fools _ enough '' -LRB- Job laid great emphasis on the `` fools '' -RRB- `` to come to such a place to look for things no man is meant to find . It 's a judgment on us , sir -- that 's my view ; and I , for one , is of opinion that the judgment is n't half done yet , and when it is done we shall be done too , and just stop in these beastly caves with the ghosts and the corpseses for once and all . And now , sir , I must be seeing about Mr. Leo 's broth , if that wild cat will let me ; and , perhaps , you would like to get up , sir , because it 's past nine o'clock . '' Job 's remarks were not of an exactly cheering order to a man who had passed such a night as I had ; and , what is more , they had the weight of truth . Taking one thing with another , it appeared to me to be an utter impossibility that we should escape from the place we were . Supposing that Leo recovered , and supposing that _ She _ would let us go , which was exceedingly doubtful , and that she did not `` blast '' us in some moment of vexation , and that we were not hot-potted by the Amahagger , it would be quite impossible for us to find our way across the network of marshes which , stretching for scores and scores of miles , formed a stronger and more impassable fortification round the various Amahagger households than any that could be built or designed by man .