Ten o'clock
When the early morning light came , he was sitting there still . Was his father keeping vigil also ? We shall never know . Ten o'clock ! and one of the five listed to be present had arrived -- the rector of the church which the Ostranders had formerly attended . He was ushered into the parlour by Deborah , where he found himself received not by the judge in whose name he had been invited , but by Mr. Black , the lawyer , who tendered him a simple good morning and pointed out a chair . There was another person in the room , -- a young man who stood in one of the windows , gazing abstractedly out at the line of gloomy fence rising between him and the street .