ten o'clock
The _ signora _ Talberg was evidently bent on outwitting all his finesse , trying to keep from him the address of her friends . The following morning the captain took up his usual watch in the promenade near the white Virgil . It was all in vain . After ten o'clock he again wandered into the Aquarium , animated by a vague hope . `` Perhaps she may come to-day ... '' With the superstition of the enamored and all those who wait , he kept hunting certain places preferred by the widow , believing that in this way he would attract her from her distant preoccupation , obliging her to come to him . The tanks of the molluscas had always been especially interesting to her . He recalled that Freya had several times spoken to him of this section .