about ten o'clock at night
Now she could endure what was to come better . And less than a month after , just as she was getting well again , all her strength and courage were needed . The end came . She was sitting before the fire , about ten o'clock at night , nursing her baby , when she heard the street-door opened by a key ; and the next moment her husband and Maitland were in the room . `` Sit quiet , now , or I 'll knock your brains out with the poker , '' said George ; and , seizing a china ornament from the chimney-piece , he thrust it into the fire , and heaped the coals over it . `` We 're caught like rats , you fool , if they have tracked us , '' said Maitland ; `` and nothing but your consummate folly to thank for it . I deserve hanging for mixing myself up with such a man in a thing like this .