nine o'clock in the evening
`` I am glad to see you . Come in ! '' `` Thank you , Neighbor Brookbine . I am sorry to trouble you : but this young man with me has not been to supper yet ; and it makes my stomach turn somersets to travel with any one who has not been to supper when it is after nine o'clock in the evening . '' `` Come in ! come in , Neighbor Hawlinshed ! though I suppose you are to be no longer my neighbor .