ten o'clock
`` I know that Dormer wants it in notes . '' `` Then let him come and fetch it . '' Mrs. St. Pierre Lawrence rose from her chair and shook her dress into straighter folds , with the air of having accomplished a task which she had known to be difficult , but not impossible to one equipped with wit and self-confidence . `` You will sell the securities , and have it all ready by ten o'clock to-morrow morning , '' she repeated , with a feminine insistence . `` You shall have the money to-morrow morning , whether I succeed in selling for cash or not , '' was the reply , and John Turner concealed a yawn with imperfect success . `` A loan ? '' `` No banker lends -- except to kings , '' replied Turner , stolidly .