ten o’clock
I said I would be ready that very day if necessary . He caught me at my word with great alacrity . The steamer Melita was leaving for Bangkok that evening about seven . He would request her captain officially to give me a passage and wait for me till ten o'clock . Then he rose from his office chair , and I got up , too . My head swam , there was no doubt about it , and I felt a certain heaviness of limbs as if they had grown bigger since I had sat down on that chair . I made my bow .