nine o'clock
But who would hear ? At nine in the morning the porter 's wife would come with his tea . But if anything should happen to him in the meantime ? There would be nothing for it but to wait till nine o'clock . Ah , if he had married , if he had had children , a wife , a home of his own , instead of these desolate bachelor chambers ! If he had married , indeed ! It was his sorrow 's crown of sorrow that he had not married , that he had not been able to marry , that the girl he had wished to marry would n't have him .