about ten o'clock
She was suffering from it as much as he . He tried to get a chance to talk with her ; but Miss Ludington , feeling slightly ill , went to her room directly after tea , and Ida accompanied her to see that she was properly cared for , and got comfortably to bed . After waiting a long while for her to come downstairs , Paul concluded that she did not intend to appear again , and went off for a walk , in the hope thereby of regaining something of his equanimity . It was about ten o'clock when he returned home . As he came in sight of the house he saw by the light reflected from the sitting-room windows that there was some one upon the piazza . As he came nearer he perceived that it was Ida . She was sitting sidewise upon a long , cane-bottomed settee , and her arms were thrown upon the back of it to form a sort of pillow on which her head rested .