ten o’clock
But it was flowing along peacefully , showing no signs that anything of the sort had happened . Not a creature was on the path on either side , so far as her eyes could see in the moonlight ; and she came to the conclusion that her grandmother must have been mistaken . `` She has odd fancies , '' said the child to herself , `` and thinks she hears things that nobody else never hears . '' At ten o'clock Diggs came home . Now , this man had a propensity for yielding to an infirmity to which many others also yield -- that of drinking too freely . It is true that this did not often occur ; but when it did happen , it was usually at a time when his services were especially required . It is very much the case in this world : we often do things , whether good ones or bad ones , just at the wrong moment .