ten o’clock before
Their rapture lifted them above the earth ; and all this youth she bestowed on him after his thirty years of toil , when he was already weary and worn probing the frightful wounds of humanity . He revived in the light of her great shining eyes , in the fragrance of her pure breath . He had faith again in life , in health , in strength , in the eternal renewal of nature . On the morning after her avowal it was ten o'clock before Clotilde left her room . In the middle of the workroom she suddenly came upon Martine and , in her radiant happiness , with a burst of joy that carried everything before it , she rushed toward her , crying : `` Martine , I am not going away ! Master and I -- we love each other . '' The old servant staggered under the blow .