ten o'clock
`` It will not matter much , '' said Maggie , `` so long as he never finds it out . '' The Countess Lanovitch never quitted her own apartments before mid-day . She had acquired a Parisian habit of being invisible until luncheon-time . The two girls left the castle of Thors in a sleigh with one attendant at ten o'clock in order to reach the hut selected for luncheon by mid-day . Etta did not accompany them . She had a slight headache . At eleven o'clock Claude de Chauxville returned alone , on horseback .