nine o'clock
`` I have just been looking out some materials for needlework for you , '' said Miss Davis . `` It is quite time you learned to sew ; I hope you will find amusement in the occupation . However , if you are tired you may go to bed . As a rule the girls do not go to bed till nine o'clock . '' Hetty shuddered as she looked at the needle-work which was prepared for her . In her eyes it was only a new instrument of torture . She did not even know how to hold a needle ; she did not want to know .