About nine o'clock
I gloried in that certainty . She might not love me -- it was presumptuous to suppose she did -- but at least I held a place in her regard . That was the thought I carried with me down-stairs , and it stayed pleasantly with me till I fell asleep in spite of the pain in my arm . About nine o'clock I was awakened by a knock on the door . Philips had brought me dinner on a tray . His eye would not meet mine . He was ashamed because he had shown the white feather in the scrimmage .