ten o'clock
`` I 'll set till twelve o'clock this night , '' she said grimly , laying her morning fire . `` That 's eighteen hours . If He ca n't do suthin ' in eighteen hours , He ca n't ever do it . '' At ten o'clock her work was done , and she established herself by the sitting-room window , her knitting in hand , to watch for him who was to come . A warm excitement flooded through her veins . `` How my heart beats ! '' she said aloud .