ten o'clock
`` I want to see a -- a -- gentleman , '' stammered Carl . `` I do n't know his name . I forgot to ask it . But he told me to come to this number to-day at ten o'clock and give him my name on a piece of paper . I 've got it here somewheres . '' Awkwardly he searched his pockets , the waiting messenger watching his every movement . It was a grimy morsel of parchment that was at length produced ; but the instant the supercilious page read the name scrawled upon it his attitude changed from superiority to servility .