eleven at night
Willoughby , among his many preoccupations , had the satisfaction of seeing the effect of drunkenness on Horace De Craye when the latter was in Clara 's presence . He could have laughed . Cut in keen epigram were the marginal notes added by him to that chapter of The Book which treats of friends and a woman ; and had he not been profoundly preoccupied , troubled by recent intelligence communicated by the ladies , his aunts , he would have played the two together for the royal amusement afforded him by his friend Horace . The hour was close upon eleven at night . Laetitia sat in the room adjoining her father 's bedchamber . Her elbow was on the table beside her chair , and two fingers pressed her temples . The state between thinking and feeling , when both are molten and flow by us , is one of our natures coming after thought has quieted the fiery nerves , and can do no more .