ten o'clock
It rang at last with a new significance for Angelica . The hour was over which had been her hour ; a chapter of her life had closed with it forever ; and when she looked up then , she found herself in another world , wherein she would walk henceforth with other eyes to better purpose . Angelica drove back to Ilverthorpe alone directly after dinner , and went straight to bed . She slept from ten o'clock that night , till the next morning , and awoke to the consciousness that the light of day was garish , that she herself was an insignificant trifle on the face of the earth , and that everything was unsatisfactory . `` Now , had I been the heroine of a story , '' she said to herself , `` it would have been left to the reader 's imagination to suppose that I remained forever in the state of blissful exaltation up to which Aunt Fulda wound me by her eloquence yesterday . Here I am already , however -- with my intentions still set fair , I believe -- but in spirit , oh , so flat ! a siphon of soda-water from which the gas has escaped .