ten o'clock
`` I shall have to ask you to look after things at the office for a little while , '' he said . `` Judge Burgoyne and I are going to Maryland for a few weeks ' shooting . '' It was very hot in the Park , and young Van Bibber , who has a good heart and a great deal more money than good-hearted people generally get , was cross and somnolent . He had told his groom to bring a horse he wanted to try to the Fifty-ninth Street entrance at ten o'clock , and the groom had not appeared . Hence Van Bibber 's crossness . He waited as long as his dignity would allow , and then turned off into a by-lane end dropped on a bench and looked gloomily at the Lohengrin swans with the paddle-wheel attachment that circle around the lake . They struck him as the most idiotic inventions he had ever seen , and he pitied , with the pity of a man who contemplates crossing the ocean to be measured for his fall clothes , the people who could find delight in having some one paddle them around an artificial lake .