eleven o'clock
` I hope so , ' said his father and Mrs. Loveday . There was something in John 's manner which indicated to Anne that he scarcely intended to come down again ; but the others did not notice it , and she said nothing . He departed a few minutes later , in the dusk of the August evening , leaving Anne still in doubt as to the meaning of his private meeting with Miss Johnson . John Loveday had been going to tell them that on the last night , by an especial privilege , it would be in his power to come and stay with them until eleven o'clock , but at the moment of leaving he abandoned the intention . Anne 's attitude had chilled him , and made him anxious to be off . He utilized the spare hours of that last night in another way . This was by coming down from the outskirts of the camp in the evening , and seating himself near the brink of the mill-pond as soon as it was quite dark ; where he watched the lights in the different windows till one appeared in Anne 's bedroom , and she herself came forward to shut the casement , with the candle in her hand .