ten o'clock
`` Well , '' Ken remarked , `` here we are . '' And there was really nothing more to be said on the subject . Such a strange house ! Maggie and Norah gone ; Felicia cooking queer meals -- principally poached eggs -- in the kitchen ; Miss Bolton failing to appear every morning at ten o'clock as she had done for the last three years ; Mother gone , and not even a letter from her -- nothing but a type-written report from the physician at Hilltop . Gone also , as Kirk discovered , was the lowboy beside the library door . It was a most satisfactory piece of furniture . From its left-hand corner you could make a direct line to the window-seat .