About ten
o'clock
`` It certainly was funny , '' dimpled Nora . `` You see , Grace , Hippy and Edith and I were going for a ride , last night , in his new car . We waited and waited for him and could n't imagine why he did n't come . About ten o'clock he came tearing along at a speed that would have made a traffic officer turn pale . Edith and I were still sitting on the porch . I pretended I was dreadfully offended until he told me where he had been , then Edith and I laughed until we almost cried . '' `` Where had he been ? ''