nearly ten o'clock
I have a most serious charge to make against her and against your cousin Miss Darrell . It relates , ' and here I felt my lips getting white again , -- ` it relates to your brother Eric . ' He started , and an expression of pain crossed his face , -- a sudden look of fear , as though he dreaded what I might have to tell him ; but the next moment he was thinking only of me . ` You shall speak to Leah to-morrow , ' he said gently ; ` it is late now , -- nearly ten o'clock , -- and you are ill , and had better go to bed and rest yourself . I can wait until to-morrow , ' taking my cold hand . But I would not be silenced . I implored him earnestly to do this for me , -- to summon Leah into the study , but not to let Miss Darrell know .