a quarter to ten
Those designs were not drawn from his imagination . She again disappeared , and the people of the place saw nothing of her till a few months ago . My informant told me that she had taken some rooms in a house which he pointed out , and these rooms she was in the habit of visiting two or three times a week and always at ten in the morning . I was led to expect that one of these visits would be paid on a certain day about a week ago , and I accordingly managed to be on the look-out in company with my cicerone at a quarter to ten , and the hour and the lady came with equal punctuality . My friend and I were standing under an archway , a little way back from the street , but she saw us , and gave me a glance that I shall be long in forgetting . That look was quite enough for me ; I knew Miss Raymond to be Mrs. Herbert ; as for Mrs. Beaumont she had quite gone out of my head . She went into the house , and I watched it till four o'clock , when she came out , and then I followed her .