Ten o'clock
`` Burnt to the ground , dearie -- burnt to a tinder , is the farm : so Sam , our carter , says ; and 't was done by some idle boys lighting a bonfire of dry furze near . '' This was her report when she returned to the kitchen . Then they heard the master and Mr. Barlow come in , and the housekeeper went to carry them in supper . Ten o'clock , and they were going out again , Inna heard them say . The little girl now stole out herself to the back gates ; there , in the shadow of the wall , she saw a moving shadow . `` Oscar ! '' She spoke his name ; and Oscar stepped out into the moonlight beside her .