ten o'clock
* * * * * So the beginning at the Beach touched its farther end . It touched with the shocks of cataclysm , whose echoes did not soon cease to reverberate . The word of the Lord came to Jack Dalhousie 's father , and he would not suffer in silence . Mr. Heth arrived at the House at ten o'clock that night ; it was the best he had been able to do , but it was too late for a family reunion by an hour . The two women had fled away to New York , probably on the very same train that bore back Hugo Canning . And behind them Rumor of the triple head had already risen , roaring an astonishment and a proverb . One summer in the Old Hotel ; of the World 's wagging on , Kern Garland , and Prince Serge Suits ; of how Kern leaves the Works for Good and has a Dream about Mr. V.V. 's Beautiful Lady ; of how Mr. V.V. came to sit in the still Watches and think again of John the Baptist .