ten o’clock
Some time after Em entered ; she had been sitting all the while on the loft ladder , and had drawn her kapje down very much over her face . Gregory was piecing together the bits of an envelope when she came in . `` I thought you were never coming , '' he said , turning round quickly , and throwing the fragments onto the floor . `` You know I have been shearing all day , and it is ten o'clock already . '' `` I 'm sorry . I did not think you would be going so soon , '' she said in a low voice . `` I ca n't hear what you say .