nine o'clock
`` Yes , '' said Tom soberly ; and the next moment Aunt Hepsy 's tall figure appeared at the kitchen door , and her shrill voice broke the pleasant Sabbath calm . `` Here , come in , you two . Air you going to stand there all night ? It 's ` most nine o'clock -- time you were in bed . I guess you wo n't go visitin ' on Sunday any more . '' It had rained all day , and not all that day only , but the best part of the one before . Not a soft , gentle summer rain , but a fierce , wild storm , which beat the poor flowers to the earth , spoiled the fruit , and overflowed the river till half the meadow lay under water .