nine o'clock
When a man and woman arrive at that stage of reasoning and feeling , it were idle for their chronicler to moralize ; her part is but to tell the story . Mary Fawcett encouraged her daughter 's social activity , and as Hamilton 's name entered the rapid accounts of revels and routs in the most casual manner , she endeavoured to persuade herself that the madness had passed with a languid afternoon . She was a woman of the world , but the one experience that develops deepest insight had passed her by , and there were shades and moods of the master passion over which her sharp eyes roved without a shock . As she was too feeble to sit up after nine o'clock , she refused to open her doors for the crab hunt , but gave Rachael the key of a little villa on the crest of a peak behind the house , and told her to keep her friends all night if she chose . This pavilion , designed for the hotter weeks of the hurricane season , but seldom used by the Fawcetts , was a small stone building , with two bedrooms and a living room , a swimming bath , and several huts for servants . The outbuildings were dilapidated , but the house after an airing and scrubbing was as fit for entertainment as any on St. Kitts . The furniture in the Tropics is of cane , and there are no carpets or hangings to invite destruction .