Ten o'clock
At ten o'clock he joined Winny and Maudie and Fred Booty at St. Ann 's Terrace , where they had arranged that Violet was to meet them . Following on her bicycle , she would be there at ten sharp , when the five would go on to Richmond by the tram that passed Winny 's door . Ransome had no sooner left Granville than Violet slipped out to the chemist 's at the corner . Ten o'clock struck , and the quarter and the half hour , and Violet had not appeared at St. Ann 's Terrace . Ransome proposed that the others should go on without him ; he said he thought there must be something wrong , and that he had better go and see what had happened . They argued about it for a while , and finally Maudie and Fred Booty started . Winny refused flatly to go with them .