nine o'clock
`` Do this for me , '' she commanded . `` Telephone Mr. Ralph . Tell him I said that I did n't want him to keep the engagement that I had him make for me this evening . That I wo n't be here at nine o'clock , that I have to go out . That he must n't bring the visitor I asked him to bring . That I 've changed my mind about seeing that visitor . '' And when he had gone away whistling atrociously and cheerfully she sat down on the bench and buried her face in her hands .