eleven o’clock
`` I am going to be your little girl again , and we will talk of nothing but Cauldkirk , until Marmaduke comes back . '' I am one of the firmest men living , but I could not keep the hot tears out of my eyes when she put her arm round my neck and said those words . By good fortune I was sitting with my back to the lamp ; she did n't notice me . A little after eleven o'clock Marmaduke returned . He looked pale and weary . But more champagne , and this time something to eat with it , seemed to set him to rights again -- no doubt by relieving him from the reproaches of a guilty conscience . I had been warned by Felicia to keep what had passed between us a secret from her husband for the present ; so we had -LRB- superficially speaking -RRB- a merry end to the evening .