nine o'clock
`` I shall do something awful to that brute before I have finished with him . He makes me mad , '' I said , and Ward walked across the room to me . `` I am most horribly sorry about this , '' he began , `` and I will come back straight from the Sceptre and see you . Be in at nine o'clock . '' `` You did n't shoot at those people , did you ? '' I asked . `` No ; but well , you see , Dennison is better than I am at getting in for a row , and I am better at getting out of it . ''