ten o'clock
It was nowhere . It had no head-quarters . Regulus found himself galloping many miles from the field of action , entirely alone ; and whither should he fly for refuge so naturally as to that kitchen and those faithful arms in which Pauline had so often welcomed him ? At some ten o'clock the clinking of a sabre might have been heard up the stair of the house where the Osbornes occupied a story in the continental fashion . A knock might have been heard at the kitchen door ; and poor Pauline , come back from church , fainted almost with terror as she opened it and saw before her her haggard hussar . He looked as pale as the midnight dragoon who came to disturb Leonora . Pauline would have screamed , but that her cry would have called her masters , and discovered her friend .