eleven o’clock
The noise of footsteps made her ill ; when people left her , solitude became odious to her ; if they came back , it was doubtless to see her die . When Charles returned in the evening , she stretched forth two long thin arms from beneath the sheets , put them round his neck , and having made him sit down on the edge of the bed , began to talk to him of her troubles : he was neglecting her , he loved another . She had been warned she would be unhappy ; and she ended by asking him for a dose of medicine and a little more love . One night towards eleven o'clock they were awakened by the noise of a horse pulling up outside their door . The servant opened the garret-window and parleyed for some time with a man in the street below . He came for the doctor , had a letter for him . Natasie came downstairs shivering and undid the bars and bolts one after the other .