ten o'clock
Then the doctor went , and John Vavasor was left alone , standing with his back to the dining-room fire . There had been so much trouble and confusion in the house since Kate had fainted , almost immediately upon her reaching home , that Mr. Vavasor had not yet had time to make up his mind as to the nature of the accident which had occurred . Mrs. Greenow had at once ascertained that the bone was broken , and the doctor had been sent for . Luckily he had been found at home , and had reached the Hall a little before ten o'clock . In the meantime , as soon as Kate recovered her senses , she volunteered her account of what had occurred . Her brother had quarrelled with her about the will , she said , and had left her abruptly on the mountain . She had fallen , she went on to say , as she turned from him , and had at once found that she had hurt herself .