nine o'clock
`` Do n't say so to Aunt Blin , '' whispered Bel . `` Look at her cheeks , and her eyes . She is sick-abed this minute , and she _ will _ keep up ! '' At nine o'clock , the very last thing , she spoke with the music-mistress again , at the door . Miss Smalley kept coming up into the passage to look out at that end window . `` I do n't mean to get up if it does burn , '' Bel said , resolutely . `` It wo n't come here .