ten o'clock
`` My lad , is it too late for you to launch your boat ? I will pay you well . '' `` Where do you wish to go to , sir ? It is now past ten o'clock . '' `` I know it is , and I hardly expected to find a waterman here ; but I took the chance . Will you take me about two miles up the river ? '' I looked at the person who addressed me , and was delighted to recognise in him the young man who had hired Mr Turnbull and me to take him to the garden , and who had been captured when we escaped with the tin box ; but I did not make myself known .