about ten o'clock
`` Hello , Jason , '' said Jimmie Dale pleasantly . `` You still up ! '' `` Yes , sir , '' replied Jason , who had been valet to Jimmie Dale 's father before him . `` I was going to bed , sir , at about ten o'clock , when a messenger came with a letter . Begging your pardon , sir , a young lady , and -- '' `` Jason '' -- Jimmie Dale flung out the interruption , sudden , quick , imperative -- `` what did she look like ? '' `` Why -- why , I do n't exactly know as I could describe her , sir , '' stammered Jason , taken aback . `` Very ladylike , sir , in her dress and appearance , and what I would call , sir , a beautiful face . ''