ten o'clock
You may all go to your rooms reels or no reels . I have experienced enough folly for one night -- if not much worse . '' For a second there was profound silence , then a general cry of protest arose . To be defrauded of their Virginia Reel for no justifiable reason , and sent to bed before ten o'clock like a lot of naughty children when they really had not done a single thing , was too much . Petty wept openly . Petty 's griefs , sorrow or joys could invariably find prompt relief in tears or giggles . She existed in a perpetual state of emotion of some sort .