ten o'clock
`` Ah , there goes Ma Chit , my wife 's cousin ! '' explained Salter . `` And I must be taking my departure , '' said Shafto rising . `` What you have been telling me is extraordinarily interesting , and I would gladly sit on for hours , but it is ten o'clock . '' `` Yes , and we workers are early birds . I hope you will come and see us again . I have been twenty years in the country and I can tell you many a curious tale .