about nine o'clock
` Back to Glasgow to do some work for the cause , ' I said lightly . ` Just so , ' he said with a grin . ` It 's a great life if you do n't weaken . ' We steamed out of the bay next morning at dawn , and about nine o'clock I got on shore at a little place called Lochaline . My kit was all on my person , and my waterproof 's pockets were stuffed with chocolates and biscuits I had bought in Oban . The captain was discouraging . ` Ye 'll get your bellyful o ' Hieland hills , Mr Brand , afore ye win round the loch head .