ten o'clock in the morning
Yet I thought she hesitated before she spoke . `` When will you like to go ? '' `` I must dress for the job , I suppose , '' said Jack . `` Shall we say to-morrow at ten o'clock in the morning , with you and Molly and nobody else in a stage box to watch the performance ? '' Pat agreed , laughing , yet there was something peculiar -- an _ arriere pensée _ -- in her laugh . She had suddenly become absent-minded -- or else she was sleepy ; and I reminded Jack that it was growing late . We took the girl back to the house , into which she disappeared with a dreamy , `` la Somnambula '' air ; and for once I was glad to see the last of the dear child .