about nine o’clock
It would have been churlish of them , afterward , to refuse to sign my bulletin . This disposed of Vittie and O'Donoghue for the time . But I knew that there was more trouble before me . I was scarcely surprised when Canon Beresford walked into my room one evening at about nine o'clock . He looked harassed , shaken , and nervous . I asked him at once if he were an influenza convalescent . `` No , '' he said , `` I 'm not .