ten o'clock
`` Then as the poles are cut , the boys will soon put it up . In the meantime , supper 's ready . '' He took her across the narrow open space , and when near the fire she stopped and looked about . It was after ten o'clock , but a pale-green glow shone above the pines , whose ragged tops cut against it in a black saw-edge . Below , a river brawled among dark rocks , catching a reflection here and there , and then plunging into shadow . It was not dark ; she could see the brush and the wild-berry vines that crawled between the trunks . Then she turned towards the fire that burned at the foot of a ledge .