ten in the morning
The agony of my undoing was a horribly protracted affair . I need n't say that what happened -- I mean the thing that made me forget all about Jevons and his half-crown -- was Viola Thesiger . I had his address , but the next day -- the day after the match -- was Sunday , so I could n't get the postal order I had meant to send him . And on Monday she walked into my rooms at ten in the morning . The appointment , I may remark , was for nine-thirty . I had fixed that early hour for it because I wanted to get it done with . I was n't going to have my morning murdered with violence when it was two hours old ; neither did I intend it to be poisoned by the thought of this interview hanging over me at the end .