nearly ten o'clock
Would he go ? There was no way out of it . Jefferson tried to work up some enthusiasm for this yachting trip , which he knew very well could never come off , and it cut him to the heart to see this poor girl joyously making all these preparations and plans , little dreaming of the domestic calamity which at that very moment was hanging over her head . It was nearly ten o'clock when they had finished . They sat a little longer listening to the gipsy music , weird and barbaric . Very pointedly , Shirley remarked : `` I for one preferred the music this afternoon . '' `` Why ? ''