ten o'clock
Would she see him the day after to-morrow , Sunday , if he strolled along Shaftesbury Avenue at ten a.m. ? It would greatly delight him , and perhaps she might be persuaded to take a little jaunt to Dulwich and look at his bow-wows . There was time enough for Polly to reply to this invitation , but reply she did not . None the less , Gammon was walking about near her lodgings at ten o'clock on Sunday morning . It seemed to him that he once or twice perceived a face at an upper window , but at a quarter past the hour Miss Sparkes had not come forth . He was on the point of going boldly to the door when a recognizable figure approached -- that of Mr. Nibby . The men hailed each other .