ten o'clock
`` I 've got to know her pretty well , '' she told Wilbur . `` She 's sound as a nut . Only let 's get away from this place . '' But toward ten o'clock on the morning after their arrival off Coronado , and just as they were preparing to get under way , Hoang touched Wilbur 's elbow . `` Seeum lil one-piece smoke-boat ; him come chop-chop . '' In fact , a little steam-launch was rapidly approaching the schooner . In another instant she was alongside .