ten o'clock
Miss Craydocke had known very well how this would be . They asked this and that of Leslie which they had come to ask ; and she would keep turning to the Josselyns and appealing to them ; so they were drawn in . There was a curtain to be made , first of all . Miss Craydocke would undertake that , drafting Leslie and the Miss Josselyns to help her ; they should all come to her room early to-morrow , and they would have it ready by ten o'clock . Leslie wondered a little that she found _ work _ for them to do : a part of the play she thought would have been better ; but Miss Craydocke knew how that must come about . Besides , she had more than one little line to lay and to pull , this serpent-wise old maiden , in behalf of her ultimate designs concerning them . I ca n't stay here under the pines and tell you all their talk this summer morning , -- how Sin Saxon grew social and saucy with the quiet Miss Josselyns ; how she fell upon the mending-basket and their notability , and declared that the most foolish and pernicious proverb in the world was that old thing about a stitch in time saving nine ; it might save certain special stitches ; but how about the _ time _ itself , and _ other _ stitches ?