ten o'clock
They walked a long time round the kitchen-garden , then they sat down under an arbour of honeysuckle . -- What time is it , Marianne ? the young girl said all at once , fixing her eyes on the window of her father 's room . -- It is late , my child , it is ten o'clock at least ; everybody in the village has gone to bed . Come , your father has finished his newspaper , there is no longer any light in his room ; he has just blown out his lamp . Let us go in . They were near the little back-gate which led out to the meadows .