ten o’clock
See if you can make a sketch of it when he is n't looking . '' Violet laughed . `` I 'll try , '' she promised . It is the desire of Madame that you should join our circle here on Thursday evening next at ten o'clock . The man looked up from the sheet of note-paper which he held in his hand , and gazed through the open French-windows before which he was standing . It was a very pleasant and very peaceful prospect . There was his croquet lawn , smooth-shaven , the hoops neatly arranged , the chalk-mark firm and distinct upon the boundary .