ten o’clock
It was white , and lay in the folding chair on the opposite side of the room . On near approach he found it to be a fragment of swan 's - down fanned into motion by his own movements , and partially squeezed into the chink of the chair as though by some person sitting on it . None but a woman would have worn or brought that swan 's - down into his studio , and it made him reflect on the possible one . Nothing interrupted his conjectures till ten o'clock , when Dare came . Then one of the servants tapped at the door to know if Mr. Somerset had arrived . Somerset asked if Miss Power wished to see him , and was informed that she had only wished to know if he had come . Somerset sent a return message that he had a design on the board which he should soon be glad to submit to her , and the messenger departed .