ten o'clock at night
`` He seems _ nice _ -- for a hired man , '' she was thinking , all the while she was answering Davy 's boyish questions . And more than once , as he watched Nancy , that first perplexing look came back into Peter Hyde 's eyes . `` Why , she _ is n't _ a kid , after all ! '' `` Claire , darling -- `` It 's after ten o'clock at night and here on North Hero that 's like four in the morning in New York , but I ca n't wait another minute to write to you . The _ funniest _ thing has happened -- only I 'll save it for the end of my letter . `` I have n't written to you since that letter with the crazy postscript , like a nightcap , on it . Well , instead of being deported from Happy House , bag and baggage , I seem to become more of a fixture , each day .