nine o'clock
It was almost as if this sudden hostility had made them friends : he liked that independence of her carriage , the pride in her eyes . Mrs. le Terry 's voice broke upon his ears . `` Which must be , Mr. Trojan , extraordinarily provoking . To go there , I mean , and find absolutely no one in -- all that way , too , and a horribly wet night , and no train until nine o'clock . '' In his endeavours to pick up the thread of the conversation he lost sight of their meeting with Clare . She , indeed , had greeted them with all the Trojan coldness ; nothing could have been more sternly formal than her `` Ah ! Mrs. Bethel , I 'm so glad that you were able to come .