half past ten
She saw nothing comical in his frequent linguistic stumblings that would naturally lead to melting moods . As the Germans have , of course , little humor , she found in these faulty exhibitions only causes for disappointed glances and reprimands approaching severity . Often you would have thought he was a boy of ten reciting his lesson at her knee . `` Now Thursday by half past ten , you must have that line right or I will _ scold _ you . '' And she would sometimes laugh a little in her discouragement . She looked upon it as a duty , a voluntary drudgery , but which , she assured him , she was most pleased to do . For she loved Heine -- raved about him , like sentimental German maids .