one o'clock
The Famulus left him here , and returned a few minutes after with some dry bread and milk , which he placed on the deal table , which , with a wooden chair , constituted the sole furniture of the room ; he then locked the door , and left Walter finally to his own reflections . Then it was that flood after flood of passionate tears seemed to remove the iron cramp which had pained his heart . He flung himself on the floor , and as he thought of the irreparable cruelty which he had inflicted on a man who had been severe indeed , but never unkind to him , and of the apparent malignity to which all who heard it would attribute what he had done , he sobbed and sobbed as though his heart would break . At one o'clock the Famulus returned with some dinner . He found Walter sitting at a corner of the room , his head resting against the angle of the wall , and his eyes red and inflamed with long crying . The morning 's meal still lay untasted on the table . He looked round with a commiserating glance .