about ten
o'clock
And so she was left to her solitary watch . She noticed , as she turned to go indoors , that the blackness of the night was just beginning to gray toward dawn . * * * * * Ste. Marie slept soundly until mid-morning -- that it to say , about ten o'clock -- and then awoke with a dull pain in his head and a sensation of extreme giddiness which became something like vertigo when he attempted to rise . However , with the aid of the old Michel he got somehow up-stairs to his room and made a rather sketchy toilet . Coira came to him there , and while he lay still across the bed told him about the happenings of the night after he had received his injury . She told him also that the motor was waiting for him outside the wall , and that Richard Hartley had sent a message by the chauffeur to say that he was very busy in Paris making arrangements about Stewart , who had come out of his strange state of half-insensibility only to rave in a delirium .