About ten o’clock
In a few days Stanton and Raymond started for Kentucky . The evening before they left was spent by Stanton in Nellie 's company . Mrs. Fulton had invited her to pass the night with her , as the Judge was absent from home . About ten o'clock Mrs. Fulton very considerately grew sleepy , and retired to her own room . But long after the town clock rang out the hour of midnight , a light might have been seen gleaming from the windows of Judge Fulton 's sitting room , in which sat Robert and Nellie , repeating for the hundredth time vows of eternal constancy . The next morning when the last rumbling sound of the eastern train died away in the streets of Geneva , Nellie Ashton sat weeping in her little room at the seminary . She felt that now she was again alone in the wide , wide world .