nine o'clock
`` They were shockingly late for breakfast again , this morning , both of them . And Mr. Boutwood had the face to ask for another egg . Hettie came and told me , so I went in myself . I told him breakfast was served in my house at nine o'clock , and there was a notice to that effect in the bedrooms , not to mention the dining-room . And as good a breakfast as they 'd get in any of their hotels , I lay ! If the eggs are cold at ten o'clock and after , that 's not my fault . They 're both of them perfectly healthy , and yet they 're bone-idle .