ten o'clock
Then Isabella , the eldest girl , was sent up to her , but Margaret refused to show herself . `` She says she would rather not ; but she wants to know if papa will walk out with her at ten . '' Lady Ball again said that this was nonsense , but tea and toast were at last supplied to her , and her cousin promised to be ready at the hour named . Exactly at ten o'clock , Margaret opened the schoolroom door , and asked one of the girls to tell her father that she would be found on the walk leading to the long shrubbery . There on the walk she remained , walking slowly backwards and forwards over a space of twenty yards , till he joined her . She gave him her hand , and then turned towards the long shrubbery , and he , following her direction , walked at her side . `` John , '' she said , `` you will not be surprised at my telling you that , after what has occurred , I shall leave this place to-day . ''