nine o'clock
` I must go as far as Pendal station , ' she said . ` Then you can look at the time-table , and tell me what train you will take . ' They walked the length of the lane almost in silence , glancing at each other once or twice . At the village station , Wilfrid discovered that a good train left Dunfield shortly after nine o'clock . From Pendal to Dunfield there would be a train in a quarter of an hour . They stood together under the station shed . No other passenger was waiting , and the official had not yet arrived to open the booking-office .