About
ten at night
They hardly spoke ; they strangled thoughts forming as larvae of wishes . Henrietta would be away to Lady Arpington 's next day , Mr. Wythan to Wales . The two voyagers were sadder by sympathy than the two whom they were leaving to the clock 's round of desert sameness . About ten at night Chillon and Mr. Wythan escorted Carinthia , for the night 's watch beside her uncle , down to Lekkatts . It was midway that the knocks on air , as of a muffled mallet at a door and at farther doors of caverns , smote their ears and shook the ground . After an instant of the silence following a shock , Carinthia touched her brother 's arm ; and Chillon said : ` Not my powder ! ' They ran till they had Lekkatts in sight .