ten
o'clock in the morning
`` We thought perhaps you would n't , '' said Fanny . But Barbara had turned to her bureau , affecting a discreet absorption in her list . And presently Ralph Bevan went out into the garden with Fanny to gather more tulips . She _ had _ been dying to know what he had done , but now , after Ralph had stayed to lunch and tea and dinner that first day , after he had spent all yesterday at the Manor , and after he had turned up to-day at ten o'clock in the morning , Barbara thought she had made out the history , though they had been very discreet and Fanny had insisted on reading `` Tono-Bungay '' out loud half the time . Ralph , of course , was in love with his cousin Fanny . To be sure , she must be at least ten years older than he was , but that would n't matter . And , of course , it was rather naughty of him , but then again , very likely he could n't help it .