ten in the morning
Miss Dorothy had taken Delfina to Sienna , and then returned to help her mistress in the last and most trying arrangements and to accompany her on the journey . In the mother 's house in Sienna the truth of the story was not known , and Delfina of course knew nothing . Maria had merely written that Don Manuel had been suddenly recalled by his government . And she made ready to go -- to leave these rooms , so full of cherished things , to the hands of the public auctioneers who had already drawn up the inventory and fixed the date of the sale for the 20th of June , at ten in the morning . On the evening of the 9th , as she was leaving Andrea , she missed a glove . While looking for it she came upon a volume of Shelley , the one which Andrea had lent her in Schifanoja , the dear and affecting book in which , before the excursion to Vicomile , she had underlined the words ` And forget me , for I can _ never _ Be thine . ' She took up the book with visible emotion and turned over the pages till she came to the one which bore the mark of her underlining . '