nearly ten o'clock
And if he ever discovered who I was , I would n't be ashamed to tell him what we had done , anyway . Of course , I ran the chance of his not being the right person , but I thought if that were so , he simply would n't pay any attention to the note , and the whole thing would end there . I addressed the letter to his hotel , and decided that it must be mailed that very night , for he might suddenly leave there and I 'd never know where else to find him . It was then nearly ten o'clock , and I did n't want Father or Mother to know about it , so I teased Anne into running out to the post-office with me . He must have received it this morning . '' Cynthia had listened to this long explanation in astonished silence . `` Is n't it the most remarkable thing , '' she exclaimed when Joyce had finished , `` that each of us should write , I to the mother and you to the son , and neither of us even guess what the other was doing !