nine o'clock
With impatience , with an inward and passionate repudiation of all other bonds and claims , he threw himself into that mingled process -- at once exploring and revealing -- which makes the thrill of all the higher relations between men and women , and ends invariably either in love -- or tragedy . * * * * * They found a carriage waiting for them near the Sforza-Cesarini gate , and in it Mrs. Elliott , Reggie Brooklyn 's kind sister . Lucy was taken to a doctor , and the hurt was dressed . By nine o'clock she was once more under the villa-roof . Miss Manisty received her with lamentations and enquiries , that the tottering Lucy was too weary even to hear aright . Amid what seemed to her a babel of tongues and lights and kind concern , she was taken to bed and sleep . Mrs. Burgoyne did not attend her .