about ten
o’clock
`` When would we reach them ? '' was Rodgers ' next question . Mr. Henderson made a few rapid calculations on a piece of paper . `` At the present rate of sailing , '' he said , `` we should be there about ten o'clock to-morrow . That is , provided the ship does not slacken speed or increase it . '' `` There is no danger of either of those two things happening , '' said the mate . `` Tony is too afraid of the machinery to do anything to it .