ten o'clock
Oh , thank you ... yes , I 've enjoyed myself very much ! Mrs Tresawna wears a toque : but I suppose that when you get to a certain position you can carry on with toques long after every one else has given them up . She has two maids ; one of them in a grey velours dress that must have been one of Mrs Tresawna 's cast-offs , for it could n't possibly have come out of her wages ; though , by the fit , it might have been made for her . '' A little before ten o'clock Nicky-Nan climbed the stairs painfully to his bedroom , undressed in part , and lay down -- but not to sleep . For a while he lay without extinguishing the candle -- his last candle . He had measured it carefully , and it reached almost to an inch beyond the knuckle of his forefinger . It would last him a good two hours at least , perhaps three .