ten in the morning
inquired the colonel , with an irony that was wholly thrown away on Algy . `` Yes , sir . And then we sat down to play cards . First thing we knew it was ten in the morning . Then we had breakfast , and the ladies got downstairs before the meal was over . The Douglas-Frazier train could n't pull out until three thirty this afternoon . So , after they 'd gone to so much trouble to see me , and had put up such a ripping time for me , of course I had to stay in town to see them off . ''