nearly ten o'clock
`` Oh , ` correct . ' Well , mother , I guess it must be correct to use slang , 'cause Gladys Mahoney does , and she 's a hummer on style . '' `` And I 've no doubt her mother reproves her for it , just as I do you . Now go to the schoolroom , it is nearly ten o'clock . '' `` I wo n't go unless Patricia comes too . If she 's going to New York with you , I 'm going . '' `` Ethelyn , '' said Mrs. St. Clair , sternly , `` do as I bid you .