ten o'clock at night
It is perfectly true that she did not quite realise that he had taken her hand -- that he had taken her hand . She was conscious in a nice , sympathetic way that her hand had been taken , but it was lost in the abstraction of her emotion . `` Oh , here , let it go quick ! '' she added -- `` and not because mother 's coming , either , '' she added as the door opened and her mother came out -- not to spy , not to reproach her daughter for sitting with a man in the moonlight at ten o'clock at night , but -- good , practical soul -- to bring them each a cup of beef-tea . `` Here , you two , '' she said as she hurried to them . `` You need something after that business in there , and there is n't time to get supper ready . It 's as good for you as supper , anyway .