ten o’clock
Charles finished by rising in his own esteem for possessing such a wife . He showed with pride in the sitting room two small pencil sketches by her that he had had framed in very large frames , and hung up against the wallpaper by long green cords . People returning from mass saw him at his door in his wool-work slippers . He came home late -- at ten o'clock , at midnight sometimes . Then he asked for something to eat , and as the servant had gone to bed , Emma waited on him . He took off his coat to dine more at his ease . He told her , one after the other , the people he had met , the villages where he had been , the prescriptions he had written , and , well pleased with himself , he finished the remainder of the boiled beef and onions , picked pieces off the cheese , munched an apple , emptied his water-bottle , and then went to bed , and lay on his back and snored .