ten o'clock in the morning
In the contingency one thing only presented itself to her paralyzed regard -- that here she was doomed to abide , in a hideous contiguity to the dead husband and the living , and her conjecture did , in fact , bear itself out . That night she lay between the two men she had married -- Heddegan on the one hand , and on the other through the partition against which the bed stood , Charles Stow . Kindly time had withdrawn the foregoing event three days from the present of Baptista Heddegan . It was ten o'clock in the morning ; she had been ill , not in an ordinary or definite sense , but in a state of cold stupefaction , from which it was difficult to arouse her so much as to say a few sentences . When questioned she had replied that she was pretty well . Their trip , as such , had been something of a failure . They had gone on as far as Falmouth , but here he had given way to her entreaties to return home .