about ten
o'clock
`` Good boy . '' Ann nodded approval . `` And by way of reward , '' insinuated Tony , `` you 'll come to the dance at the Gloria this evening , wo n't you ? I could come over and fetch you about ten o'clock , after this precious Venetian fête is over . I 'd have liked to go on the lake , but Uncle Philip has ordained that we are to watch the proceedings from our balcony at the Gloria . After that , I should think ` cousin ' will be sufficiently exhausted to contemplate the idea of retiring to bed like a Christian woman . She 's seventy-nine . ''