ten o'clock
He examined with a magnifying-glass the several parallel wounds , and compared them with the slip of blotting-paper , marked with Silvio 's claws , which he took from his pocket-book . He put back the paper , simply remarking : `` It 's a pity that Silvio slips in -- and out -- just when he should n't . '' The morning wore slowly on . By ten o'clock Nurse Kennedy had so far recovered that she was able to sit up and talk intelligibly . But she was still hazy in her thoughts ; and could not remember anything that had happened on the previous night , after her taking her place by the sick-bed . As yet she seemed neither to know nor care what had happened . It was nearly eleven o'clock when Doctor Winchester returned with Sir James Frere .