ten
o’clock
After a while she went home . A fine shadow was flung over the deep green meadow , darkening all . As she expected , she found the house empty . But Morel was home by ten o'clock , and that day , at least , ended peacefully . Walter Morel was , at this time , exceedingly irritable . His work seemed to exhaust him . When he came home he did not speak civilly to anybody .