about ten o'clock
If C. insists on answers say you decline except in presence of your legal adviser . '' So there was a scene in the commander 's tent that afternoon . The morning had not been without its joys . Along about ten o'clock as Gray sat writing to his father in his little canvas home , he heard a voice that sent the blood leaping through his veins and filled his eyes with light . Springing from his campstool and capsizing it as he did so , he poked his curly head from the entrance of the tent -- and there she was -- only a dozen feet away -- Major Lane in courteous attendance , Mr. Prime sadly following , and Miss Prime quite content with the devotions of Captain Schuyler . Only a dozen feet away and coming straight to him , with frank smiles and sympathy in her kind and winsome face -- with hand outstretched the moment she caught sight of him . `` We wanted to come when we heard of it yesterday , Mr. Gray , '' said Amy Lawrence , `` but it was dark when we got back from seeing the fleet off , and uncle was too tired in the evening .