nine o'clock
Being exhausted by the events of the day , he retired at an early hour to his grateful devotions and to his pillow , where he found that repose which he had sought in vain within the gloomy and -LRB- he supposed -RRB- ever-sealed walls of his prison . In the morning he was awakened by the light footsteps of his pretty waiting-maid entering the front room . His chamber-door being open , he asked her what the hour was ? She replied nine o'clock ; adding that she had brought a letter , which one of the waiters from Slaughter 's Coffee-house had just left , with information that he did so by the orders of a footman in a rich livery . Thaddeus desired that it might be given to him . The child obeyed , and quitted the room . He saw that the superscription was in Miss Dundas 's hand ; and opening it with pleasure , -- because everything interested him which came from the house which contained Mary Beaufort , -- to his amazement and consternation he read the following accusations : -- `` To MR. CONSTANTINE .