ten o'clock at night
`` Tiberge , although only three years older than myself , was a youth of unusually strong mind , and of the best regulated conduct . He loved me with singular affection . The sight of so lovely a girl as Manon , my ill-disguised impatience to conduct her to the inn , and the anxiety I betrayed to get rid of him , had excited in his mind some suspicions of my passion . He had not ventured to return to the inn where he had left me , for fear of my being annoyed at his doing so ; but went to wait for me at my lodgings , where , although it was ten o'clock at night , I found him on my arrival . His presence annoyed me , and he soon perceived the restraint which it imposed . ` I am certain , ' he said to me , without any disguise , ` that you have some plan in contemplation which you will not confide to me ; I see it by your manner . ' I answered him rather abruptly , that I was not bound to render him an account of all my movements .