about ten o'clock
`` Try and eat some of this milk-toast , mother ; it 's real nice , '' urged Elmira . But Ann could eat no supper . She seemed completely unstrung , for some mysterious reason . They persuaded her to go to bed early ; but she was not asleep when they went up-stairs , about ten o'clock , for she called out sharply to know if it was still snowing . `` No , mother , '' Jerome answered , `` I have just looked out , and there are some stars overhead . I guess the storm is over . '' `` Oh , Jerome , you do n't suppose mother is going to be sick , do you ? ''