ten o’clock
I 'll run to fetch one of the nurses whom I brought this morning , a girl I can answer for as for myself . In an hour 's time I 'll be back here with her , and there will be a little present for you if you help me to get her the situation . '' She disappeared while the maid , before answering a second ring , leisurely replaced the malaga and the biscuits at the bottom of the cupboard . At ten o'clock that day Seguin was to take his wife and their friend Santerre to Mantes , to lunch there , by way of trying an electric motor-car , which he had just had built at considerable expense . He had become fond of this new `` sport , '' less from personal taste , however , than from his desire to be one of the foremost in taking up a new fashion . And a quarter of an hour before the time fixed for starting he was already in his spacious `` cabinet , '' arrayed in what he deemed an appropriate costume : a jacket and breeches of greenish ribbed velvet , yellow shoes , and a little leather hat . And he poked fun at Santerre when the latter presented himself in town attire , a light gray suit of delicate effect .