About ten o’clock
Both Mrs. Hill and her children had a presentiment of some impending calamity , and , although they had not the faintest suspicion of the real state of affairs , they did not look on William Bennett as they would have done on any other person casually introduced into their household . A damper seemed to have been placed on all their spirits , and the flow of conversation was sluggish and dull . After dinner they endeavored to organize an impromptu card-party , but that , also , was a failure ; and , although , as a rule , they had a little music after dinner , on this particular evening each one seemed indisposed to break the monotony . About ten o'clock William left for his hotel , having first made an appointment with his father for the following morning . When they met William returned to the subject of their previous discourse , and insisted on his father returning with him to Montreal . The old man vowed that , come what might , he would never go back to his `` priest-ridden family '' as he chose to designate his wife and children . The battle waxed fast and furious , till at last William exclaimed with an oath : `` By -- you shall leave your Yankee mistress , then ; _ she _ shall suffer what _ my mother _ suffered ; '' and with oaths and threatenings he hounded his father out of Boston , determined that Mrs. Hill should not -LRB- innocent though she was -RRB- enjoy the happy home which was denied to his mother .