ten o'clock
From a drawer in his desk Johnson quietly drew copies of the morning papers , each one folded carefully to an article in which , under wide variations of embarrassing head-lines , the facts of Bobby 's latest frittering of his father 's good money were once more facetiously , even gleefully , set forth and embellished , with added humorous speculations as to how he would probably cremate his new fund . Bobby was about to turn into his own room to absorb his humiliation in secret when Applerod hesitantly stopped him . `` Another thing , sir , '' he said . `` Mr. Frank L. Sharpe called up early this morning to know when he would find you in , and I took the liberty of telling him that you would very likely be here at ten o'clock . '' Bobby frowned slightly at the mention of that name . He knew of Sharpe vaguely as a man whose private life had been so scandalous that society had ceased to shudder at his name -- it simply refused to hear it ; a man who had even secured advancement by obligingly divorcing his first wife so that the notorious Sam Stone could marry her . `` What did he want ? ''