nine o'clock
`` Ah , Miss Kilburn ! '' she said , without any of the wonted preliminaries of introduction and greeting . `` I should have come long ago to see you , but I 've been dispersed over the four quarters of the globe ever since you came , my dear . I got home last night on the nine o'clock train , in the last agonies of that howling tempest . Did you ever know anything like it ? I see your trees have escaped . I wonder they were n't torn to shreds . ''