nearly ten o'clock
` I can do it in twenty minutes there and back . ' ` Yes ! and a bloody fine row there 'd be if Hunter was to see you ! ` Ere it 's nearly ten o'clock and we ai n't made a start on this gable wot we ought to ` ave started first thing this morning . ' ` Could n't we tie two or three of those short ropes together ? ' suggested Philpot . ` Those that the other two ladders was spliced with ? '