nine o'clock
I thought of them all at home , -- Phil and Fee with their fun and merry speeches , and Jack , and the little ones , and Nora ; there is always something or other going on , and I would have given almost anything to be back once more among them . I was so unhappy this afternoon that I actually deliberated whether I had the courage to do something desperate , -- make faces at Mr. Erveng , or race upstairs and interview Mrs. Erveng , or call Hilliard names out loud , -- _ anything _ , so that they would send me home . But after a while I concluded I would n't try any of these desperate remedies ; not that I minded what they 'd say at home -LRB- teasing , I mean -RRB- , but papa would want to know the whole affair , -- he has got to think a good deal of Mr. Erveng , -- and besides , somehow , though she 's so gentle and refined , Mrs. Erveng is n't at all the sort of person that one could do those things to . So I said nothing , though I thought a great deal ; and I went to bed before nine o'clock thoroughly disgusted with the Ervengs . Hilliard was at breakfast the next morning , just as stiff and prim and proper as ever , -- it almost seemed as if what had happened in the storm must be a dream . But later on , when we were on the piazza , he spoke of it to me . `` I feel that I should explain to you that I have a nervous dread of a thunder storm , '' he said , in that proper , grown-up way in which he speaks , but getting very red .