nine o'clock
A Rash Step Honor 's sleep was undoubtedly of a very pretended description . She lay still in bed , pressing her hand to her burning head , to try to calm the throbbing in her temples and allow herself to think collectedly . She must decide upon what course she meant to take , for matters could not go on thus any longer . Before nine o'clock to-morrow morning she must again face Miss Maitland , and take her choice between betraying Dermot and her expulsion from St. Chad 's . In either case , the danger to her brother seemed great . If Miss Cavendish wrote to Major Fitzgerald , asking him to remove his daughter from the College , he would naturally come over to Chessington and make full enquiries as to the reason . She would not be able to face her father 's questions , and Dermot 's secret would come out , after all .