ten o'clock
`` You 'll have to look fairly sharp if you 're to catch the one-fifty . '' `` I _ must _ catch it , '' declared Nan . `` Why , the Chattertons are fourteen miles from Abbencombe Station and it would be simply ghastly if they sent all that way to meet me -- and there _ was _ no me ! Besides , there 's a rehearsal fixed for ten o'clock to-morrow morning . '' While she spoke , the two girls were making their way down the circular flight of stone steps -- since the lift was temporarily out of order -- preceded by the driver grumblingly carrying Nan 's suit-case and hat-box . A minute or two later the taxi emitted a grunt from somewhere within the depths of its being and Nan was off , with Penelope 's cheery `` Good luck ! '' ringing in her ears .