ten o’clock
Amélie gave a stifled cry ; Madame de Montrevel alone heard it . Louis dismissed the two peasants , and they jostled each other at the door in their efforts to go through together . Nothing more was said that evening about the Chartreuse or the pavilion , nor of its supernatural tenants , spectres or phantoms who haunted them . At ten o'clock everyone was in bed at the Château des Noires-Fontaines , or , at any rate , all had retired to their rooms . Three or four times in the course of the evening Amélie had approached Roland as if she had something to say to him ; but each time the words died upon her lips . When the family left the salon , she had taken his arm , and , although his room was on the floor above hers , she had accompanied him to his very door . Roland had kissed her , bade her good-night , and closed his door , declaring himself very tired .