nine o'clock
`` Yes , sir , '' said Mr. James . `` Now you 've had your four years at college , and I think it 's time you should be learning something . '' `` Yes , sir , '' said Mr. James . `` So I wish you to come down to the counting-room at nine o'clock and sort the letters . '' `` Yes , sir , '' said Mr. James . Mr. James Bowdoin looked at him suspiciously over his spectacles . `` At eight o'clock ; do you hear ? ''