nine o'clock
she repeated . He was trying his best to find out what it was all about when one of the nurses came hurrying down the corridor . `` You are both wanted down in the board-room . They have called a special meeting of the trustees for nine o'clock ; everybody 's here and acting decidedly peculiar , I think . Why , as I passed the door I am sure I saw the President slapping the Senior Surgeon on the back . I never heard of anything like this happening before . '' `` Come , '' said Margaret MacLean to the House Surgeon .