ten o'clock
`` You are very good to me . I shall not forget that either . '' And she meant that some day she would confess to him that she was so tired , and lonely , and disconsolate on this journey to Crowndale , and so in need of the strength he could give , that she would have surrendered herself gladly to the comfort of his arms , to the passion that his touch aroused in her quickening blood ! Soon after ten o'clock they entered the town of Crowndale and drew up before the unattractive portals of the Grand Palace Hotel . An arc lamp swinging above the entrance shed a pitiless light upon the dreary , God-forsaken hostelry with the ironic name . Mr. Rushcroft was already at the desk , complaining bitterly of everything seen and unseen . As a matter of habit he was roaring about his room and , while he had n't put so much as his nose inside of it , he insisted on knowing what they meant by giving it to him .