about ten o'clock
`` Not really ? '' `` Yes , really ! '' said Bubble . `` I got to the Farm about ten o'clock , and went up and knocked at the front door , thinking I 'd give Mrs. Hartley a surprise , same as I did you just now ; but nobody came , so I went in , and found not a soul in the house . But I knowed -- I _ knew _ she could n't be far off ; for her knitting lay on the table , and the beans -- it was Saturday -- were in the pot , simmering away . So I sat down in the farmer 's big chair , and looked about me . Oh , I tell you , Miss Hilda , it seemed good !