ten o'clock
I will grant it . Tell me what it is . '' He leaned back , looking at me curiously . `` Sir , '' I said , `` it is now about half-past ten o'clock . What I ask is that my cousin , Mistress Dorothy Jermyn , receives an immediate dismissal from Her Majesty 's service ; and is ordered to leave London with me , for her father 's house , at noon . '' His Majesty looked at me amazed . I think he did not know whether to be angry , or to laugh .