ten o'clock
`` If they had n't , you 'd have missed your train . We 've got to make time , now . '' As he took his place in the Green Imp Leaver looked across the street at the cottage back among the trees . Its windows were quite dark , although the hour was barely ten o'clock . Burns looked over , too . `` By the way , '' he said , as they moved away , `` why was n't Miss Ruston among the crowd assembled to see you off ? As an acquaintance of yours in Baltimore she ought to join in the send-off back to that town . ''