ten o'clock in the morning
But after so disgraceful a scandal it was impossible for the Lennoxes to remain in the company . Dick was very much cut up about it , and without even claiming his week 's salary , he and his wife packed up their baskets and boxes and returned to Manchester . And there he entered into a quantity of speculations , of the character of which she had not the least idea ; all she knew was , that she never saw him from one end of the day to the other . He was out of the place at ten o'clock in the morning , and never returned before twelve at night . These hours of idleness and solitude were hard to bear , and Kate begged of Dick to get her an engagement . But he was afraid of another shameful scene , and always gave her the same answer -- that he had as yet heard of nothing , but as soon as he did he would let her know . She did n't believe him , but she had to submit , for she could never muster up courage to go and look for anything herself , and the long summer days passed wearily in reading the accounts of the new companies , and the new pieces produced .