ten o'clock
This was a favour which all the sufferers ardently coveted , but which only a few favoured ones with difficulty secured . After protesting , anxious as he felt with regard to the effect which a night spent in the open air might have upon her health , the young priest , seeing how unhappy she had suddenly become , at last promised that he would make the application . Doubtless she imagined that she would only obtain a hearing from the Virgin when they were alone together in the slumbering peacefulness of the night . That morning , indeed , she felt so lost among the innumerable patients who were heaped together in front of the Grotto , that already at ten o'clock she asked to be taken back to the hospital , complaining that the bright light tired her eyes . And when her father and the priest had again installed her in the Sainte-Honorine Ward , she gave them their liberty for the remainder of the day . `` No , do n't come to fetch me , '' she said , `` I shall not go back to the Grotto this afternoon -- it would be useless . But you will come for me this evening at nine o'clock , wo n't you , Pierre ?