ten o'clock
exclaimed Ruth . `` I never knew I was going to be a fisherman . '' `` You must n't say ` fisherman ; ' you must say fisherlady , '' put in Andy mischievously . The men did not return until ten o'clock that night . All were tired and hungry and glad to sit down to the meal which Mrs. Powell and the cook provided . `` It was a wild-goose chase , '' answered Tom Rover in reply to a question from Andy . `` We followed half a dozen clues , but they did n't get us anywhere . ''