eleven o'clock
It was the night before Wyvis ' return . The whole household seemed somewhat disorganized by the prospect . There was an air of subdued excitement visible in the oldest and staidest of the servants , for in spite of Wyvis ' many shortcomings and his equivocal position , he was universally liked by his inferiors , if not by those who esteemed themselves his superiors , in social station . Mrs. Brand had gone to bed early , and Janetta hoped that she was asleep ; Mrs. Wyvis had kept Janetta at her bedside until after eleven o'clock , regaling her with an account of her early experience in Paris . When at last she seemed sleepy , Janetta said good-night and went to her own room . She was tired but wakeful . The prospect of Wyvis ' return excited her ; she felt that it would be impossible to sleep that night , and she resolved therefore to establish herself before the fire in her own room , with a book , and to see , by carefully abstracting her mind from actual fact , whether she could induce the shy goddess , sleep , to visit her .