nine in the evening
He was there to do the last kind offices of despairing love for the angel that had crossed his dark path and illumined it for a moment , to leave it now forever . At last the fatal evening came ; her last in Sydney . Then Seaton 's fortitude , sustained no longer by the feverish stimulus of doing kindly acts for her , began to give way , and he desponded deeply . At nine in the evening he crept upon General Rolleston 's lawn , where he had first seen her . He sat down in sullen despair upon the very spot . Then he came nearer the house . There was a lamp in the dining-room ; he looked in and saw her .