about ten
o'clock
`` Exactly . A dream similar to yours , only much worse . '' It was foolish and thoughtless of me to say this , but you know how little tact the average painter has . `` I must have fallen asleep about ten o'clock , '' I continued , `` and after a while I dreamt that I awoke . So plainly did I hear the midnight bells , the wind in the tree-branches , and the whistle of steamers from the bay , that even now I can scarcely believe I was not awake . I seemed to be lying in a box which had a glass cover . Dimly I saw the street lamps as I passed , for I must tell you , Tessie , the box in which I reclined appeared to lie in a cushioned wagon which jolted me over a stony pavement .