ten o'clock
A stranger gave Barnaby a blue cockade and bade him wear it , and while he was still fixing it in his hat Lord Gordon and his secretary , Gashford , passed , and then turned back . `` You lag behind , friend , and are late , '' said Lord George . `` It 's past ten now . Did n't you know the hour of assemblage was ten o'clock ? '' Barnaby shook his head , and looked vacantly from one to the other . `` He can not tell you , sir , '' the widow interposed . `` It 's no use to ask him .