nine o'clock
Thus terrible is it to be in the power of an Annalise . The first evening in Creeper Cottage was unpleasant . There was a blazing wood fire , the curtains were drawn , the lamp shone rosily through its red shade , and when Priscilla stood up her hair dusted the oak beams of the ceiling , it was so low . The background , you see , was perfectly satisfactory ; exactly what a cottage background should be on an autumn night when outside a wet mist is hanging like a grey curtain across the window panes ; and Tussie arriving at nine o'clock to help consecrate the new life with Shakespeare felt , as he opened the door and walked out of the darkness into the rosy , cosy little room , that he need not after all worry himself with doubts as to the divine girl 's being comfortable . Never did place appear more comfortable . It did not occur to him that a lamp with a red shade and the blaze of a wood fire will make any place appear comfortable so long as they go on shining , and he looked up at Priscilla -- I am afraid he had to look up at her when they were both standing -- with the broadest smile of genuine pleasure . `` It _ does _ look jolly , '' he said heartily .