nine o’clock
Presently she heard Mrs. Quiggin with a servant of the hotel countermanding the order for the carriage at eleven , and engaging it instead for the extraordinary hour of nine at night . `` She intends to keep it , '' thought Jenny . `` And now , '' she said , settling herself at the writing-table ; `` now for the _ other _ simpleton . '' `` Tell D. Q. , '' she wrote , addressing Lovibond ; `` that E. Q. goes home by carriage at nine o'clock to-night , and that you have appointed to meet her for a last farewell at eight by the waterfall in the gardens of Castle Mona . Then meet _ me _ on the pier at seven-thirty . '' Lovibond received this message while sitting at breakfast , and he caught the idea of it in an instant . Since the supper of the night before he had been pestered by many misgivings , and troubled by some remorse .