ten A.M.
Grodman was still a bachelor . In the celestial matrimonial bureau a partner might have been selected for him , but he had never been able to discover her . It was his one failure as a detective . He was a self-sufficing person , who preferred a gas stove to a domestic ; but in deference to Glover Street opinion he admitted a female factotum between ten A.M. and ten P.M. , and , equally in deference to Glover Street opinion , excluded her between ten P.M. and ten A.M. `` I want you to come across at once , '' Mrs. Drabdump gasped . `` Something has happened to Mr. Constant . '' `` What ! Not bludgeoned by the police at the meeting this morning , I hope ? ''