about ten
o'clock
Not that we did n't appreciate hearin ' intimate details about the late Mr. Mumford . We did -- the first two or three times . After that it was more entertainin ' to look at the moon . For my part , I could have stood a few more hours of that ; but about ten o'clock Mrs. Mumford 's voice gives out , or she gets to the end of a chapter . Anyway , she informs us cheerful that it 's time young folks was gettin ' in their beauty sleep ; so Vee goes off to her stateroom , and after I 've helped J. Dudley Simms burn up a couple of his special cork-tipped Russians , I turns in myself . Did n't seem like I 'd been poundin ' my ear more 'n half an hour , and I was dreamin ' something lovely about doin ' one of them pelican dives off a pink cotton cloud , when I feels someone shakin ' me by the shoulder . I pries my eyes open , and finds one of the crew standin ' over me , urgin ' me to get up .