about ten o'clock
`` He 'll very likely call round to see your young man , chick , when he 's done with Pilkington . '' To which Sally replied , `` Oh , _ he 'll _ come round here . Told him to ! '' Which he did , at about ten o'clock . But Fenwick had never called at Iggulden 's , neither had he come back to his own home . It was after midnight before his foot was on the stairs , and Sally had retired for the night , telling her mother not to fidget -- Jeremiah would be all right . At eleven o'clock that night a respectable man with weak eyes and a cold was communing with a commanding Presence that lived in a bureau -- nothing less !