about ten o'clock
`` I wish he 'd been on the tricycle instead of mother , '' continued Teddy , with a sigh of content at the bare idea . `` Teddy , you are not as nice a little boy as I thought when you talk like that , '' said Jeffreys . `` Come and let 's have one more turn on the machine , and then I must hurry back , or Mrs Trimble will think I 'm lost . '' Jeffreys got back to Galloway House about ten o'clock , and found Jonah sitting up for him . `` So you _ have _ come back , '' said that individual pompously . `` I hope you 've enjoyed your evening out . '' `` Yes , '' said Jeffreys , `` pretty well . ''