ten o’clock in the morning
After an interval of silence , however , she asked her companion from whom she had received a visit an hour before . `` From an old friend -- an American gentleman , '' Isabel said with a colour in her cheek . `` An American gentleman of course . It 's only an American gentleman who calls at ten o'clock in the morning . '' `` It was half-past ten ; he was in a great hurry ; he goes away this evening . '' `` Could n't he have come yesterday , at the usual time ? '' `` He only arrived last night . ''