nine o’clock
Everybody hurried to do something towards facilitating the preparations . The single gentleman , it is true , could do nothing himself , but he overlooked everybody else and was more locomotive than anybody . The work of packing and making ready went briskly on , and by daybreak every preparation for the journey was completed . Then Kit began to wish they had not been quite so nimble ; for the travelling-carriage which had been hired for the occasion was not to arrive until nine o'clock , and there was nothing but breakfast to fill up the intervening blank of one hour and a half . Yes there was , though . There was Barbara . Barbara was busy , to be sure , but so much the better -- Kit could help her , and that would pass away the time better than any means that could be devised .