ten o'clock
Moreover Klara had found by previous experience that to yield to the young man 's varied and varying caprices was always remunerative , and there was that gold watch which he had once vaguely promised her , and which she knew she could get out of him if she had the time and opportunity , as she certainly would have to-night if he came . Count Feri , seeing that she had all but yielded , was preparing to go . Her hand was still in his , and he was pressing her slender fingers in token of a pledge for this evening . `` At ten o'clock , '' he whispered again . `` No , no , '' she protested once more , but this time he must have known that she only did it for form 's sake and really meant to let him have his way . `` The neighbours would see you enter , and there might be a whole lot of people in the tap-room at that hour : one never knows . They would know by then that my father had gone away and they would talk such scandal about me .