about nine o'clock
This was about eight o'clock . Ten minutes later she had been seen in company with another woman traversing the sea-shore . Then all at once it came out in the general confusion that Griffiths was the niece of Gillie Godber . Sir Morgan had himself , about nine o'clock , in coming over the hills from Dolgelly , observed the smuggling ship under sail . The lover of Griffiths was known to be one of the smugglers : all of them , it is certain , would abet any plan of vengeance upon Sir Morgan Walladmor : and , in less time than I have taken to relate it , the whole devilish plot -- mode , purpose , and too probable success , -- became apparent to every body in the castle . `` Cases , in which hope and fear are brought into fierce struggle with each other , are those which are the worst to support and which bear heavily on the fortitude even of strongest minds . This was shown in Sir Morgan : there was still a chance that the smuggler might be intercepted : and that chance might be defeated in a thousand ways .