nine o'clock
`` Did you , indeed ? '' sneered Richard . `` And the next thing he will do will be to go to my father , and ask him if you were at our house . My folks know I went to bed before nine o'clock . You have got me into a pretty scrape . '' `` No , I have n't . The old man wo n't ask any more questions ; but he was mad as thunder with me for staying out so late .