ten
o’clock
` Let us go and see the gambling , ' Racksole suggested . ` We might encounter the Berlin lady . ' The suggestion , in the first instance , was not made seriously , but it appeared to both men that they might do worse than spend the intervening time in the gorgeous saloon of the Kursaal , where , in the season , as much money is won and lost as at Monte Carlo . It was striking ten o'clock as they entered the rooms . There was a large company present -- a company which included some of the most notorious persons in Europe . In that multifarious assemblage all were equal . The electric light shone coldly and impartially on the just and on the unjust , on the fool and the knave , on the European and the Asiatic .