ten o'clock
`` Oh , Brice ! If you make him talk that way to her , it will be perfectly killing . '' `` I dare say the audience will find it so . '' They were so late at breakfast , and sat there so long talking , for Maxwell said he did not feel like going to work quite so promptly as usual , that it was quite ten o'clock when they came out of the dining-room , and then they stayed awhile gossiping with people on the piazza of the hotel before they went back to their cottage . When they came round the corner in sight of it they saw the figure of a man pacing back and forth on the veranda , with his head dropped forward , and swinging a stick thoughtfully behind him . Louise pulled Maxwell convulsively to a halt , for the man was Godolphin . `` What do you suppose it means ? ''