ten o'clock
Billy heard the other children talking of this news and hushing themselves when he came up . Tom learned of the occurrence by a telephone , and , after supper , told Cyrus and myself ; Maria was informed of it by telephone through an old friend who thought Maria should know of what every one was saying . Lorraine , walking to the office to meet Charles , was overtaken on the street by Mrs. Temple , greatly concerned for us and for Peggy , and learned the strange story from our sympathetic neighbor , to repeat it to Charles . At ten o'clock there was only one person in the house , perhaps in Eastridge , who was ignorant of our daughter 's singular fortune . That person was our dear girl herself . Since my own intelligence of the report I had not left her alone with anybody else for a moment ; and now I was standing in the hall watching her start safely up-stairs , when to our surprise the front-door latch clicked suddenly ; she turned on the stairs ; the door opened , and we both faced Charles . From the first still glances he and I gave each other he knew she had n't heard .