ten o'clock
In a few minutes she was fast asleep , for she believed their difficulties were over . Bab did not feel as secure . She was still thinking of the speech the newspaper girl had made to her in the car . At ten o'clock the Assistant Secretary of State , who was sitting alone in his study , heard a violent ringing of his telephone bell . He did not know that , at this same instant , his daughter Harriet had crept down to his study door intending to make a full confession of her mistakes to him . Mr. Hamlin picked up the receiver . '' ` The Washington News ? '