ten o'clock
`` As a matter of fact , '' he said easily , `` I 'm going with you to lamp birds . I want to duck that fool doctor . '' `` You 'll do nothing of the sort , '' said Diane with decision , `` for I 'm going to stay in camp and bake bread . '' The bread was baking odorously and a variety of shavings flying ambitiously from an embryo pipe by ten o'clock . At noon the doctor had not yet arrived . Philip dexterously served a savory fish chowder from a pot hanging within a tripod of saplings and refused to dwell upon the thought of his eventual departure . A man appeared among the trees to the east , switching absently at the underbrush with a cane .