ten o'clock
No good going home , of course , with the servants out -- and everything . And just as we were finishing dinner this amiable sister of mine gave a whoop and let it out that she 'd forgotten her jewels . Well , there was plenty of time . I put her aboard the train as soon as the sleepers were open -- ten o'clock , you know -- and trotted back home to fetch the loot . '' A reminiscent chuckle punctuated his account , but struck no echo from Sally 's humour . Moveless and mute , the girl sat unconsciously clutching the edge of the table as if it were the one stable fact in her whirling world ; all her bravado dissipating as her daze of wonder yielded successively to doubt , suspicion , consternation . `` I said there was plenty of time , and so there was , barring accidents .