ten o'clock
She was very nervous , and tried to explain her presence in a breath -- with the result that she broke down utterly and had to stop . Mac , his jovial face rather startled , was making for the stairs ; but I sternly brought him back and presented him . Whereon , being utterly confounded , he made the tactful remark that he would have to go and put out the milk-bottles : it was almost morning ! She had been waiting since ten o'clock , she said . A taxicab , with her maid , was at the door . They were going back to New York in the morning , and things were terribly wrong . `` Wrong ?