ten o'clock
`` You cooked it a little too much , maybe . '' `` Maybe , '' the girl assented listlessly . `` I was going to have it for luncheon . The woman promised to be here by ten o'clock , and I got the breakfast well enough -- after a fashion -- but she has n't come , and I 'm s-so hungry ! '' Her eyes filled again . `` It 's simply filthy here , '' she murmured . `` Do you know anybody we could depend on -- oh , how stupid of me , of course you do n't . ''