the hour of ten
But I shall love her for what she has said and done today . I pray you be not long in coming again . None can want you much more sorely than I do ! '' The clocks in the church steeples were chiming the hour of ten as Dinah and her two companions started forth a second time upon their errand of mercy and charity . It was an hour at which in ordinary times all the city should be alive , the streets filled with passersby , wagons lumbering along with heavy freights , fine folks in their coaches or on horseback picking their way from place to place , and shopmen or their apprentices crying their wares from open doorways . Now the streets were almost empty . The shops were almost all shut up .