about eight o'clock
Angela took Arthur round the place , and showed him all the spots connected with her strange and lonely childhood , of which she told him many a curious story . In fact , before the day was over , he knew all the history of her innocent life , and was struck with amazement at the variety and depth of her scholastic acquirements and the extraordinary power of her mind , which , combined with her simplicity and total ignorance of the ways of the world , produced an affect as charming as it was unusual . Needless to say that every hour he knew her he fell more deeply in love with her . At length , about eight o'clock , just as it was beginning to get dark , she suggested that he should go and sit a while with her father . `` And what are you going to do ? '' asked Arthur . `` Oh !