about nine o'clock
By that time the company had seen all the most striking and celebrated statues in the principal halls and galleries . They had been making a sort of circuit through the palace in passing through these rooms , and now came out very near the entrance door , where they had come in . Here the torch bearers left them , and went away with their apparatus to the part of the building where they belonged , while the company , descending the grand staircase , came out into one of the porticos of the church , and issuing from the portico they found carriages in waiting upon the piazza , and ready to convey them home . Mr. George and his party reached their hotel about nine o'clock , all very much pleased with the spectacle which they had witnessed . Rollo was so much pleased with his torch light visit to the Vatican , and he found , moreover , on talking with Charles and Allie about it the next day , so much evidence of their having been greatly pleased with it , that he planned , a few days afterwards , a torch light visit to the Coliseum . It is very common to make moonlight visits to the Coliseum , but Rollo thought a torch light view of the majestic old ruin would be better . On proposing his plan to his uncle , Mr. George said that he had no objection to it if Rollo would make all the arrangements .