ten o'clock
Why _ is _ everything late on Monday ? However , she was intercepted by the postman and the foreign postmark -- a dozen words on a card , but she read them several times , and put the card in her pocket to show to Lætitia Wilson . She was pretty sure to be there . And so she was , and by ten o'clock had seen the card and exhausted its contents . And by five-minutes-past Sally was impending over the sparkling water of Paddington swimming-bath . She was dry so far , and her blue bathing-dress could stick out . But it was not to be for long , for her two hands went together after a preliminary stretch to make a cutwater , and down went Sally with a mighty splash into the deep -- into the moderately deep , suppose we say -- at any rate into ten thousand gallons of properly filtered Thames water , which had been -LRB- no doubt -RRB- sterilised and disinfected and examined under powerful microscopes until it had n't got a microbe to bless itself with .