ten o'clock
It is a queer little steep-roofed house , with a flowering bean up the front , and a bit of garden , full of snap-dragons , before it . We shall be here a week or so yet , at any rate , and then , I think , we shall go straight home , Dick has lost so much time already . With a great deal of love , Your Kitty . With the two young people whose days now lapsed away together , it could not be said that Monday varied much from Tuesday , or ten o'clock from half past three ; they were not always certain what day of the week it was , and sometimes they fancied that a thing which happened in the morning had taken place yesterday afternoon . But whatever it was , and however uncertain in time and character their slight adventure was to themselves , Mrs. Ellison secured all possible knowledge of it from Kitty . Since it was her misfortune that promoted it , she considered herself a martyr to Kitty 's acquaintance with Mr. Arbuton , and believed that she had the best claim to any gossip that could come of it . She lounged upon her sofa , and listened with a patience superior to the maiden caprice with which her inquisition was sometimes met ; for if that delayed her satisfaction it also employed her arts , and the final triumph of getting everything out of Kitty afforded her a delicate self-flattery .