ten o'clock
` I should hardly have recognised you , Mr. Eric , ' I ventured to observe , for I saw he was a little sensitive about his appearance ; and then he told me in his frank way that the clothes he wore were the same in which he left Gladwyn nearly four years ago . ` They have been lying by all this time , ' he went on , ` and they are sadly creased , I am afraid . I have grown a little broader , and they do n't seem to fit me , somehow , but I did not want Gladys to see me in anything else . ' We had decided to take the ten o'clock train to Heathfield , so I did not keep him long waiting for me . On our way to the station we met a house-painter : he looked rather dubiously at Eric . ` All right , Phil , ' he laughed , ` I am going home ; but I shall turn up again all right : this lady has brought me good news . ' And he wrung Phil 's hand with a heartiness that spoke volumes .