nine o'clock
He determined to go back to Chide , who now always returned to Lytchett by an evening train , after a working-day in town . Accordingly , the new Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House dined lightly , and went off to St. Pancras , leaving a note for the Prime Minister to say where he was to be found , and promising to come to town again the following afternoon . * * * * * The following morning fulfilled the promise of the tranquil evening and starry night , which , amid the deep quiet of the country , had done much to refresh a man , in whom , indeed , a stimulating consciousness of success seemed already to have repaired the ravages of the fight . Ferrier was always an early riser , and by nine o'clock he and Sir James were pottering and smoking in the garden . A long case in which Chide had been engaged had come to an end the preceding day . The great lawyer sent word to his chambers that he was not coming up to town ; Ferrier ascertained that he was only half an hour from a telegraph office , made a special arrangement with the local post as to a mid-day delivery of letters , and then gave himself up for the morning to rest , gossip , and a walk . By a tiresome _ contretemps _ the newspapers did not arrive at breakfast-time .