ten o'clock
`` I have let the child sleep , '' she explained to Somerled and Basil . `` It _ is _ such a child , is n't it ? And when she wakes up there may be a wire in answer to mine , which went before eight . '' When ten o'clock struck and still the telegram had not arrived , Aline asked herself if she ought n't to go and call on old Mrs. MacDonald , who had deigned to take no notice of her tactfully expressed letter . Just then , however , Somerled 's chauffeur was seen hovering in the flowery distance . He had brought two stage papers which his master had sent him out to buy . Aline was not pleased that Somerled had thought it necessary to get information on his own account .