nearly ten o'clock
-LSB- Photo , from the play , of the Ryder household as Jefferson is introduced to Miss Green . -RSB- `` Father , I 've changed my mind , I 'm not going away . '' -- Act II . It was nearly ten o'clock when they had finished . They sat a little longer listening to the gipsy music , weird and barbaric . Very pointedly , Shirley remarked : `` I for one preferred the music this afternoon . '' `` Why ? ''