nine in the morning
` Morning of course -- I walked out of -- the house -- ' ` Your aunt 's house ? ' ` Yes , of course , my aunt 's house . Do let me go on with my story . It was getting a little dark -- ' ` Getting dark at nine in the morning ? ' ` In the evening , I said . ' ` I beg your pardon , I thought you said the morning . ' ` No , no , the evening ; and of course I was a little frightened , for I was not accustomed -- ' ` But you were never out alone at that hour , -- in London ? '