about nine o'clock
Night found the unhappy wife in an agony of suspense and alarm . Some one at the boarding-house advised her to have an advertisement for her husband inserted in a morning paper . She did not hesitate long about this course . In the morning , a brief advertisement appeared ; and about nine o'clock a man called and asked to see her . She descended from her room to the parlour with a wildly throbbing heart , but staggered forward and sank into a chair , weak almost as an infant , when she saw that the man was a stranger , instead of her husband , whom she had expected to meet . `` Are you Mrs. Fletcher ? '' he asked .