About ten
o'clock
She was nervously impatient now . The minutes dragged along . Why did n't ` the man hurry and go out ? `` About ten o'clock , '' Danglar had said -- but that was very indefinite . Pinkie Bonn and the Pug might be as late as that ; but , equally , they might be earlier ! It seemed an interminable time . And then , her eyes strained across the street upon that upper window , she drew still farther back into the protecting shadows of the doorway .