ten o'clock
To hasten to the release of Capitola 's mother , I would set out at midnight and ride straight on for a week ! '' `` Ah ! there is no need of such extravagant feats of travel . It is now ten o'clock ; if we start within an hour we can reach the ` Calm Retreat ' by eleven o'clock to-night . '' `` En avant , then , '' exclaimed Herbert , rising and ringing the bell . Traverse ordered horses , and in twenty minutes the friends were on the road to East Feliciana . They reached the `` Calm Retreat '' so late that night that there was none but the porter awake to admit them .