ten o'clock
` You can yet make the train . ' `` But I was obdurate ; I would n't leave her until she was in a hospital and comfortable . And when she saw I meant it , she smiled -- and fainted . Well , instead of the ten o'clock train , I caught the twelve , which should have landed me here at five , but a series of delays , due to accidents ahead ; put us at seven . It was , I thought , too late to deliver my letter that evening , so I took a taxi here and had dinner . Then I paid a short visit to some friends at the Shoreham and returned shortly before midnight . I found two notices that I had been called on the telephone at 10:15 and 11:00 , by parties who declined to give their names or leave a call .