ten
o’clock in the morning
Tibbs modestly repeated his former suggestion . ` I beg you wo n't mention such a thing , ' said Mrs. T. ` A marriage , indeed to rob me of my boarders -- no , not for the world . ' Tibbs thought in his own mind that the event was by no means unlikely , but , as he never argued with his wife , he put a stop to the dialogue , by observing it was ` time to go to business . ' He always went out at ten o'clock in the morning , and returned at five in the afternoon , with an exceedingly dirty face , and smelling mouldy . Nobody knew what he was , or where he went ; but Mrs. Tibbs used to say with an air of great importance , that he was engaged in the City . The Miss Maplesones and their accomplished parent arrived in the course of the afternoon in a hackney-coach , and accompanied by a most astonishing number of packages . Trunks , bonnet-boxes , muff-boxes and parasols , guitar-cases , and parcels of all imaginable shapes , done up in brown paper , and fastened with pins , filled the passage .