about five
o'clock
He left her with an excited mind which kept her awake a greater part of the night , and next morning she resolved to do as she had been told and remain in all day , even at the risk of losing her situation . Then as the hours wore on and Arthur came not , her excitement increased until it was like a fever in her veins , and made her lips dry , and burnt in her cheeks like fire . She could not read , nor work , nor sit still ; nor could she take any refreshment , with that gnawing hunger in her heart ; but hour after hour she moved about her narrow room until her knees trembled under her , and she was ready to sink down , overcome with despair that the brother she had found and loved was ashamed to own her for a sister . Finally she set the door of her room open , and at every sound in the house she flew to the landing to listen ; and at last , about five o'clock , on going for the hundredth time to the landing , she heard a visitor come into the hall and ask for `` Miss Affleck . '' She hurried down to the ground floor , passing the servant girl who had admitted her brother and was going up to call her . When she entered the sitting-room Eden was standing on the further side staring fixedly at a picture on the wall . It was a picture of a fashionable young lady of bygone days , taken out of one of L.E.L. 's or Lady Blessington 's _ Beauty Books ; _ she was represented wearing a shawl and flounced dress , and with a row of symmetrical curls on each side of her head -- a thing to make one laugh and weep at the same time , to think of the imbecility of the human mind of sixty years ago that found anything to admire in a face so utterly inane and lackadaisical .