ten o'clock
I remember looking hard at Gabriel once , and saying to myself , `` After all , he will admire me for this much more than I deserve ; after all , I do not love him so much as I imagined . '' After supper I played some while on the piano . Gabriel and Constance sat very far apart , but I should not have felt it had they sat together . At ten o'clock I left off . `` Gabriel , '' said I , `` I shall turn you out a little earlier than usual to-night , because I want to walk as far as the park with you . '' Then , for a second , feeling returned to me ; there came a little flutter of fear within me , the same I sometimes felt in childhood when I had told a lie and , wanting to confess it , stood at my mother 's door saying , `` May I come in ? '' There was no moon , but the sky was not dark .