ten in the morning
For news had got abroad , and tidings were told that Mr Baggett was about to arrive in the neighbourhood to claim his wife . Everybody knew it before the inhabitants of Croker 's Hall . And now , since yesterday afternoon , all Croker 's Hall knew it , as well as the rest of the world . He was standing there close to the house , which stood a little back from the road , between nine and ten in the morning , as drunk as a lord . But I think his manner of drunkenness was perhaps in some respects different from that customary with lords . Though he had only one leg of the flesh , and one of wood , he did not tumble down , though he brandished in the air the stick with which he was accustomed to disport himself . A lord would , I think , have got himself taken to bed .