ten o'clock
She had n't been in that room five minutes before she had created a situation ; a situation that bristled with difficulty and danger . To begin with , she was so young . She could n't have been , then , a day older than one-and-twenty . My first instinct -LRB- at least , I suppose it was my first -RRB- was to send her away ; to tell her that I was afraid she would n't do , that she was too unpunctual , and that I had found , between nine-thirty and ten o'clock , somebody who would suit me rather better . Any lie I could think of , so long as I got out of it . So long as I got her out of it . I do n't know how it was she so contrived to impress me as being in for something , some impetuous adventure , some enterprise of enormous uncertainty .