nine o'clock
Look here . '' The two girls played happily together with Honey-Sweet until Mrs. Collins declared that Anne was tired and tucked her away with Lizzie in a trundle-bed . `` I du n no when I 've set up so late , '' the good woman said to her husband , as she wound up the clock . `` It 's near nine o'clock . But one thing I tell you , Peter Collins , afore I get a mite of sleep -- Nobody 's going to send that po ' child back to the ` sylum she 's runned away from . Tai n't no use for you to say a word . '' `` Is I said a word ? ''