ten o’clock
Barbara stopped , lost in thought . Not a word spoke Madame Vine . She still wondered what this affair touching Richard Hare and Thorn could have to do with Francis Levison . `` I watched from the window and saw them come in at the garden gate -- Mr. Carlyle and Richard -- between nine and ten o'clock , I think it must have been then . The first words they said to me were that it was not the Captain Thorn spoken of by Richard . I felt a shock of disappointment , which was wicked enough of me , but I had been so sure he was the man ; and to hear that he was not , seemed to throw us further back than ever . Mr. Carlyle , on the contrary , was glad for he had taken a liking to Captain Thorn .