ten
o’clock
Everybody will say what everybody will have the right to say about you . Out with it and confess the truth , that one of your snivelling poets has fallen in love with you and you with him . ' `` I still held my peace , but I rose and went into the best bedchamber , and sat there in the dark till bedtime . I heard James come upstairs at ten o'clock as usual , go to his own room , and lock himself in . I never hesitated a moment . I could not go home to become the centre of all the chatter of the little provincial town in which I was born . My old nurse , who took care of me as a child , had got a place in London as housekeeper in a large shop in the Strand .