ten o'clock
The more playfully -LRB- or desperately , poor girl -RRB- she chucked herself at him , the more did her charms cloy as against those of that other prize who so stoutly kept him at arm 's - length . Nay , the more strenuously did she seek to entice his good offices , the more troubled was he to imagine why another of her sex should so slightingly regard him . Thus , as the day wore on , was Bob thrice impelled towards Mary -- by initial attraction of her beauty ; by natural instinct to show himself master where , till now , he had been bested ; and by the stabbings of his wounded vanity . On Monday morning , then , he caught the ten o'clock train to town , hot in the determination immediately to see her and instantly to press his suit . He would try , he told himself , a new strategy . Bold assault had been proved ill-advised ; for frontal attack must be substituted an advance more crafty . Its plan required no seeking .