ten o'clock
This is all the thanks we getsh for it . Ungrachful ! '' Constance had been thinking very hard , paying no heed to his maudlin defence . It rapidly was dawning upon her that these men had secured her lover 's release on bail at half-past ten o'clock , an hour and a half before she had given her bribe of nine thousand crowns to the gaoler . That being the case , it was becoming clear to her that the wretch deliberately had taken the money , knowing that Brock was not in the prison , and with the plain design to rob her of the amount . It was a transaction in which he could be perfectly secure ; bribing of public officials is a solemn offence in Austria and Germany . She could have no recourse , could make no complaint .