ten o'clock
` It takes a gentleman to sell to a gentleman , ' he said . `` I did n't lie awake very long after we did go to bed , I can assure you . We took our candles , I remember , and I told him we must breakfast together . The next thing I remember was the chambermaid knocking at my door and saying it was ten o'clock . Of course he was gone . You 've been expecting me to tell you that , I suppose . So he had gone and I was fourteen pounds to the bad , unless he redeemed his IOU .