nine
o’clock in the morning
Captain Sellers , who watched through the window as she was being taken away , said that perhaps it was his fault for putting temptation in her way . Mrs. Chinnery tried to keep her door fast next morning , but it was of no use . The captain was in and out all day , and , having found a tin of green paint and a brush among his stores , required constant watching . The day after Mrs. Chinnery saw her only means of escape , and at nine o'clock in the morning , with fair words and kind smiles , sent him into Salthaven for some picture-cord . He made four journeys that day . He came back from the last in a butcher 's cart , and having handed Mrs. Chinnery the packet of hooks and eyes , for which he had taken a month 's wear out of his right leg , bade her a hurried good-night and left for home on the arm of the butcher . He spent the next day or two in an easy-chair by the fire , but the arrival of Mrs. Willett to complete the furnishing of No. 5 from her own surplus stock put him on his legs again .