ten o’clock
`` Imagine a flash of lightning ! '' she exclaimed . `` It was on the morning of the day when you found me so moved ! My sister-in-law , Seraphine , who does not call on me four times a year , came here , to my great surprise , at ten o'clock . She has become very strange , as you are aware , and I did not at first pay any attention to the story which she began to relate to me -- the story of a young man whom she had become acquainted with through some lady -- an unfortunate young man who had been spoilt by bad company , and whom one might save by a little help . Then what a blow it was , my friend , when she all at once spoke out plainly , and told me of the discovery which she had made by chance . I tell you , it is destiny awaking and striking ! ''