ten o’clock
I felt a sudden desire to get out of that house , to fly from the reinforced Blunt element which was to me so oppressive . `` I want to get up and dress , Mademoiselle Therese , '' I said . She gave a slight start and without looking at me again glided out of the room , the many folds of her brown skirt remaining undisturbed as she moved . I looked at my watch ; it was ten o'clock . Therese had been late with my coffee . The delay was clearly caused by the unexpected arrival of Mr. Blunt 's mother , which might or might not have been expected by her son . The existence of those Blunts made me feel uncomfortable in a peculiar way as though they had been the denizens of another planet with a subtly different point of view and something in the intelligence which was bound to remain unknown to me .