ten o'clock
With perfect unconcern , he went on checking the list the property-man had left him . He had ceased trying to decide the meaning of the flutter which he was not sure Miss Adair really gave when she was pleased . He was too busy to think about anything but the rush and roar of the machinery of `` The Purple Slipper , '' so he just kept Miss Adair so near him for all the waking hours of the day that he could have no occasion to have his thoughts distracted by worrying over just what might be befalling her . Day after day he extracted her from the Y. W. C. A. at ten o'clock A. M. , fed her and Miss Lindsey coffee and rolls and berries just any place that they happened to see -LRB- often he even ate with the two girls in the big empty cafeteria at the institution -RRB- , lunched with her in the same haphazard fashion , sought a cool and quiet spot to give her dinner , and a ride on a country road , turned her into the big safety at about eleven o'clock , and went to bed to sleep the sleep of the interestedly absorbed . The few evenings that Miss Adair spent with Mr. Gerald Height Mr. Vandeford did not find repose so early or with such ease . Also , his awakening on those mornings after was not so joyous , and he arrived at the Y. W. C. A. fifteen and twenty minutes too early upon each occasion . However , his time was well spent in chatting with the brisk young secretary , and his anxiety was entirely relieved each time by finding the look intact in the gray eyes raised to his in eager greeting after the prolonged absence of fourteen hours , when the usual separation was about ten .