nine o'clock
`` Laura is terribly distressed , '' Page went on . `` I can see that . They used to spend all their evenings together in the library , and Laura would read aloud to him . But now he comes home so tired that sometimes he goes to bed at nine o'clock , and Laura sits there alone reading till eleven and twelve . But she 's afraid , too , of the effect upon him . He 's getting so absorbed . He do n't care for literature now as he did once , or was beginning to when Laura used to read to him ; and he never thinks of his Sunday-school .