ten o'clock before
Her ease of mind was thoroughly established . What had been the necessity for all those qualms of fear ? The matter was simple , after all . It was ten o'clock before she ate her breakfast . She had come to the so-called river , the only one in perhaps a hundred miles . It was quite a respectable stream at this particular season , but spread very thinly and widely at the ford . By noon she was half way of her distance .