nine o'clock
she asked . `` Surely it is not mid-day yet ? Why do you disturb me ? '' `` It is barely nine o'clock , Mademoiselle , but Monsieur Bellamy -- Mademoiselle told me that she wished to receive him whenever he came . He is in the boudoir now , and very impatient . '' `` Did he send any message ? '' `` Only that his business was of the most urgent , '' the maid replied .