ten o'clock
` Not altogether . I had mine a few weeks ago . Miss Nunn will be going away in a fortnight , I think . ' Just before ten o'clock , when Barfoot was talking of some acquaintances he had left in Japan , Rhoda entered the room . She seemed little disposed for conversation , and Everard did not care to assail her taciturnity this evening . He talked on a little longer , observing her as she listened , and presently took an opportunity to rise for departure . ` Wednesday is the forbidden evening , is it not ? '