ten o'clock
Hilda returned calmly , triumphing after all over Janet 's superiority , and thinking , `` Janet can be very peculiar , Janet can ! '' For more than twenty hours , Hilda was profoundly miserable . Towards the evening of the same day , she had made herself quite sure that Edwin Clayhanger would call that night . Her hope persisted until half-past nine : it then began to fade , and , at ten o'clock , was extinct . His name had been mentioned by nobody . She went to bed . Having now a room of her own , which overlooked the Clayhanger garden and house , she gazed forth , and , in the dark , beheld , with the most anxious sensations , the building in which Edwin existed and was concealed .