ten o'clock
She is waiting in the sitting-room . '' `` Pull yourself together , Jeeves , my man , '' I said , rather severely , for I bar practical jokes before breakfast . `` You know perfectly well there 's no one waiting for me in the sitting-room . How could there be when it 's barely ten o'clock yet ? '' `` I gathered from her ladyship , sir , that she had landed from an ocean liner at an early hour this morning . '' This made the thing a bit more plausible . I remembered that when I had arrived in America about a year before , the proceedings had begun at some ghastly hour like six , and that I had been shot out on to a foreign shore considerably before eight .