ten o'clock
`` You had been paid ! You had had your present ! However , as you _ are _ here , you may as well lay a third place in the dining-room , for , as you see , we have brought Madame Bailey back to have a little supper . She will only stay a very few moments , as she has to be at the Villa du Lac by ten o'clock . '' The woman turned and threw open the door of the dining-room . Then she struck a match , and lighted a lamp which stood on the table . Sylvia , as is often the case with those who have been much thrown with French people , could understand French much better than she could speak it , and what Madame Wachner had just hissed out in rapid , mumbling tones , surprised and puzzled her .