nine o'clock
He looked into his bank account and found that Laura 's wedding would take about all his surplus . But this did not dismay him much , for money matters never did . It simply meant more work in the office . The next day he rose early and was in his office by nine o'clock . He had not been so prompt in months , and many of his employees came in late that morning . But nobody seemed very much perturbed , for Roger was an easy employer . Still , he sternly told himself , he had been letting things get altogether too slack .