ten o'clock
When the lights went up Wolf approved the dark hair and the pearls , and bent toward her to hear the unending confidences . Norma thought she had never seen anything better , and even Wolf admitted that it was a good show . They finished the peppermints , and were very happy . They had seen the big film , and so could cut the last third of the programme , and reach home at ten o'clock . There was no comment from Aunt Kate , who was yawning over the evening paper in the dining-room . Rose and Harry were murmuring in the dimly lighted parlour . Wolf , who was of the slow-thinking , intense type that discovers a new world every time it reads a new book , was halfway through a shabby library copy of `` War and Peace , '' and went off to his room with the second volume under his arm .