ten o'clock
`` It is all fair -- all fair , '' said Kosmaroff to himself , seeking to convince himself . `` Besides -- has the world been fair to me ? '' Which argument has made the worst men that walk the earth . Soon after ten o'clock Miss Mangles received a message that Netty , having a headache , had gone to her room . Miss Cahere had never given way to that weakness , which is , or was , euphoniously called the emotions . She was not old-fashioned in that respect . But to-night , on regaining her room , she was conscious , for the first time in her life , of a sort of moral shakiness .