ten o'clock
` Longer next time . ' They descended together . Now that Louis no longer abode here -LRB- he had decided at length for medicine , and was at work in London -RRB- , the family as a rule spent very quiet evenings . By ten o'clock Mrs Warricombe and Fanny had retired , and Sidwell was left either to talk with her father , or to pursue the calm meditations which seemed to make her independent of companionship as often as she chose . ` Are they all gone ? ' Buckland asked , finding a vacant room . ` Father is no doubt in the study . '