ten o’clock
Let 's go out -- somewhere , anywhere -- to a concert . Music hath its charms to soothe a savage breast , and my breast is simply the very essence of wildness to-night . Put on your things , Bess , and hurry , or I 'll suffocate . '' Bessie did as she was told , and before ten o'clock the happy pair had forgotten their woes , nor do I think they would have remembered them again that night had they not found on their return home that they were locked out . At this even the too amiable Bessie was angry -- very angry -- unjustly , as it turned out afterwards . `` They were n't to blame , after all , '' she explained to Thaddeus , when he came home the next night . `` I spoke to them about it , and they all thought we 'd spend the night with your mother and father at the Oxford . ''