about nine o’clock
Well , he just sat around in the hotel lounge , reading the papers and so on , till it was time for dinner . He did n't hurry any over that either . `` I began to think that there was nothing doing , that he 'd just come on the trip for his health , but I remembered that he had n't changed for dinner , though it was by way of being a slap-up hotel , so it seemed likely enough that he 'd be going out on his real business afterwards . `` Sure enough , about nine o'clock , so he did . Took a car across the town -- mighty pretty place by the way , I guess I 'll take Jane there for a spell when I find her -- and then paid it off and struck out along those pine-woods on the top of the cliff . I was there too , you understand . We walked , maybe , for half an hour .