ten o'clock
` Will Tom be up in the hall ? ' Harold asked . ` Of course not , ' Mrs. Tracy replied . ` He will be in the parlors until ten o'clock , and then he will go to bed . Why do you ask ? ' ` Because , ' Harold answered fearlessly , ` if he was to be there I could not come ; he chaffs me so and twits me with being poor and living in a house his uncle gave us . ' ` That is very naughty in him , and I will see that he behaves better in future , ' said Mrs. Tracy , rather amused than other wise at the boy 's frankness .