ten o'clock
But there passed beneath that arch many daughters who since have grown into women and done virtuously , I hope . If not , I am certain there was no lack of encouragement that day in the honest , smiling faces of Captain Hocken and Captain Hunken as they stood with proprietary mien , one on either side of the roadway , and each with an enormous red rose aglow in his button-hole . _ Pulvis et umbra sumus _ -- `` The tumult and the shouting dies . '' -- A little before ten o'clock that night Mr Middlecoat and Mrs Bosenna walked up through the dark to Higher Parc to see the bonfires . The summit commanded a view of the coast from Dodman to Rame , and inland to the high moors which form the backbone of the county . Mrs Bosenna counted eighteen fires : her lover could descry sixteen only . `` But what does it matter ? ''