about eleven o'clock
It is also true that he rose very early , before the household was stirring . The cook slept in a room off the kitchen , which was in an outhouse in the back yard . She was just stretching herself , preparatory to getting up , when Tom came to her window and said that he was going off fishing , to be gone all day , and that he would not wait for breakfast . Ellis left the office of the Morning Chronicle about eleven o'clock the same evening and set out to walk home . His boarding-house was only a short distance beyond old Mr. Delamere 's residence , and while he might have saved time and labor by a slightly shorter route , he generally selected this one because it led also by Major Carteret 's house . Sometimes there would be a ray of light from Clara 's room , which was on one of the front corners ; and at any rate he would have the pleasure of gazing at the outside of the casket that enshrined the jewel of his heart . It was true that this purely sentimental pleasure was sometimes dashed with bitterness at the thought of his rival ; but one in love must take the bitter with the sweet , and who would say that a spice of jealousy does not add a certain zest to love ?