ten o'clock
`` I will -- be -- good ! '' Radcliffe whispered chokingly , so low she had to bend her head to hear . Claire laid her arms about him and he clung to her neck , trembling . It was almost ten o'clock when Claire left the house . She waited to see Radcliffe properly fed , and put to bed , before she went . She covered him up , and tucked him in as , in all his life , he had never been covered up , and tucked in , before . Then , dinnerless and faint , she slipped out into the bleak night .