ten
o'clock
For the rest of the day they saw very little of each other . Mr. Ruddiman rambled musing . When he came at the usual hour to supper , guests were occupying the hostess . Having eaten , he went out to smoke his pipe in the garden , and lingered there -- it being a fine , warm night -- till after ten o'clock . Miss Fouracres ' voice aroused him from a fit of abstraction . ` I 've just locked up , sir . ' ` Ah !