ten o'clock
It was Alma now who sighed , but not audibly . Before Thistlewood went north again , Harvey enjoyed long talks with him . Mary Abbott he saw only in the presence of other people . But on an evening in February , when Alma was at the Langlands ' and he had promised to call for her at ten o'clock , he left home an hour earlier and walked past Mrs. Abbott 's house . A light in the window of her sitting-room showed that Mary was at home . After a turn or two backwards and forwards , he went up to the door and knocked . A very young servant took his name to her mistress , and then admitted him .