10:10
Mechanically he opened the flat , black book at his elbow and placed his finger on D , running his eye along the line of figures after the name Devine . `` It 's banker 's hours she keeps , indeed , '' he muttered . What was the use of entering so capricious a record ? Nevertheless , with his usual preliminary flourish he wrote 10:10 under this , the fourth day of May . The employee who kept banker 's hours rustled on down the corridor to her private room , hung up her lavender jacket and her trim spring hat , and readjusted her side combs by the mirror inside her closet door . Glancing at her desk , she rang for an office boy , and reproved him because he had not dusted more carefully and because there were lumps in her paste . When he disappeared with the paste-jar , she sat down to decide which of her employer 's letters he should see and which he should not .