about ten o'clock
`` Let us make another beginning , '' he said , as he told his son to make out another check for sixty pounds as his first instalment of the allowance . `` I do not like to take it , '' said the son . `` I do n't think you need be scrupulous now with me . '' That was early in the morning , at their first interview , about ten o'clock . Later on in the day Mr. Scarborough saw his son again , and on this occasion kept him in the room some time . `` I do n't suppose I shall last much longer now , '' he said . `` Your voice is as strong as I ever heard it . ''