nearly ten o'clock
`` Where 's my watch ? '' he exclaimed . `` Where has it gone ? '' `` Do n't you hear me say it is nearly ten o'clock ? What on earth do you mean by sleeping to this hour when the bank ought to be open ? '' Harding blinked at his pyjama-clad manager . `` You do n't seem to have been up so very long , '' he grumbled .