about ten o'clock
I found a note waiting for me from her when I arrived yesterday , and -- well , she wanted to see me alone about something very particular , and she -- '' Horace paused and reddened . `` Well , you know what women are , and of course there was really no place at the hotel where I could have been sure of a private interview with her . I could n't go to her room , and one might as well talk in a trolley-car as that hotel parlor ; and she did n't want to come here to the house and be closeted with me , and she did n't want to linger after school , for those school-girls are the very devil when it comes to seeing anything ; and though I will admit it does sound ridiculous and romantic , I do n't see myself what else she could have done . She asked me in her note to step out in the grove about ten o'clock , when the house was quiet . She wrote she had something very important to say to me . So I felt like a fool , but I did n't go to bed , and I stole down the front stairs , and she was out there in the grove waiting for me , and we sat down on the bench there and she told me some things . '' Henry nodded gravely .