ten in the morning
And it was arranged that he should endeavour to fix a day for Trevelyan 's return to England . That was to be the one object in view . `` If we could get him to England , '' she said , `` he and I would , at any rate , be together , and gradually he would be taught to submit himself to advice . '' Before ten in the morning , Stanbury was walking up the hill to the house , and wondering at the dreary , hot , hopeless desolation of the spot . It seemed to him that no one could live alone in such a place , in such weather , without being driven to madness . The soil was parched and dusty , as though no drop of rain had fallen there for months . The lizards , glancing in and out of the broken walls , added to the appearance of heat .