ten o'clock at night
We all three went home together next day . As soon as we arrived in town , Allan went straight to see Richard and to carry our joyful news to him and my darling . Late as it was , I meant to go to her for a few minutes before lying down to sleep , but I went home with my guardian first to make his tea for him and to occupy the old chair by his side , for I did not like to think of its being empty so soon . When we came home we found that a young man had called three times in the course of that one day to see me and that having been told on the occasion of his third call that I was not expected to return before ten o'clock at night , he had left word that he would call about then . He had left his card three times . Mr. Guppy . As I naturally speculated on the object of these visits , and as I always associated something ludicrous with the visitor , it fell out that in laughing about Mr. Guppy I told my guardian of his old proposal and his subsequent retraction .