ten o'clock
`` It is sinful to disturb even our nearest relatives at prayer . Besides , you would not believe how the maestro 's praises and the imperial gift have excited the vanity in her woman 's nature . For the first time in I know not how many years , she overslept the hour of mass . It was probably ten o'clock when I knocked at her chamber door . Toward eleven there was a movement in her room . Then I opened the door to bid her good-morning , but she neither heard nor saw anything , and knelt at the priedieu as if turned to stone . Before going to sleep and early in the morning I expect such things , but when it is almost noon !