nine o'clock
Never was there a woman more determined to carry out her purpose than Mrs. Bolton , or one more determined to thwart the purpose of another than she who still called herself Hester Caldigate . In the morning Mrs. Bolton implored her husband to go into Cambridge as usual ; but he felt that he could not leave the house with such inmates . So he sat in his bedroom dozing wretchedly in his arm-chair . Caldigate appeared before the house at nine o'clock , no further attempt having been made to exclude his entrance by the side gate , and asked to see Mr. Bolton . ` Papa is up-stairs , ' said Hester through the window . But the old man would not come down to see his visitor , nor would he send any message . Then Caldigate declared his purpose of going at once to the mayor and demanding assistance from the police .