ten at night
Come with Hender ; she 's one of the dressers . I 'll make that all right ; you can tell her so from me . Will you promise to come ? ' ` I should like it so much ; but what excuse can I give for being out till half-past ten at night ? ' ` You need n't stay till then ; you can leave before the piece is half over . Say you went out for a walk . ' The most ingenious and complete fiction that Mr. Lennox 's inventive brain might have worked out would not have appeased Kate 's fears so completely as the simple suggestion of a walk , and her face lit up with a glow of intelligence as she remembered how successfully she had herself made use of the same excuse .