ten o'clock
`` I must call at the sexton 's about the bell , too , '' said Arabella . `` It is just round here , is n't it ? I 'll meet you at my door . '' By ten o'clock that night Jude was lying on the bedstead at his lodging covered with a sheet , and straight as an arrow . Through the partly opened window the joyous throb of a waltz entered from the ball-room at Cardinal . Two days later , when the sky was equally cloudless , and the air equally still , two persons stood beside Jude 's open coffin in the same little bedroom . On one side was Arabella , on the other the Widow Edlin .