ten o'clock
When she saw the face , and the black hair , from which the cap had fallen off , she was nearly frightened to death , but , fortunately for herself , she did not scream . She was rather a stupid woman , with but few ideas , but she could not fail to see that some one had taken her charge , and put this child in its place . Her first impulse was to run back to the gardens , but she felt certain that her baby had been carried off ; and , besides , she could not , without discovery , leave the child here or take it with her ; and while she stood in dumb horror , her mistress sent for her . The lady was just going out to dinner , and told the nurse that , as they were all to start for the Continent by the tidal train , which left at ten o'clock that night , she must be ready with the baby , well wrapped up for the journey . The half-stupefied woman had no words nor courage with which to declare , at this moment , the true state of the case . She said nothing , and went back to the nursery and sat there in dumb consternation , and without sense enough to make a plan of any kind . The strange child soon awoke and began to cry , and then the nurse mechanically fed it , and it went to sleep again .