ten o'clock
But you , my lord , are here upon a heavy charge , and you are to go before Sir Alexander McKetchum . '' `` Why , then , do you not conduct me there ? Do you mean to keep me in this beastly place all day ? '' `` My lord , your examination is fixed for ten o'clock ; it is only nine now , '' said McRae , passing on to the inner room , from which he presently appeared with Faustina . Wretched did the poor creature look with her pale and tear-stained face , her reddened eyes and disheveled hair ; and her rich and elegant white evening dress with its ample skirts and lace flounces bedraggled and bedabbled with all the filth of the station house . `` I have had a horrid night ! I have been in worse than purgatory .