ten o’clock
`` Perhaps I 'd better go over to Thormanby Park and see . '' `` Finish your breakfast , '' said my mother . `` I 'll order the trap for you . '' I arrived at Thormanby Park shortly after ten o'clock . The door was opened to me by Miss Battersby . She confessed that she had been watching for me from the window of the morning room which looks out over the drive . She squeezed my hand when greeting me and held it so long that I was sure she was suffering from some acute anxiety .