about ten o'clock in the evening
You can read him together . '' Vautrot read well ; and though his heavy declamatory style frequently annoyed the Countess , she thus managed to kill many a long evening , while waiting the expected visit of Madame de Tecle . But Vautrot , whenever he looked at her , wore such a sympathetic air and seemed so mortified when she did not invite him to stay , that , even when wearied of him , she frequently did so . About the end of the month of April , M. Vautrot was alone with the Countess de Camors about ten o'clock in the evening . They were reading Goethe 's Faust , which she had never before heard . This reading seemed to interest the young woman more than usual , and with her eyes fixed on the reader , she listened to it with rapt attention . She was not alone fascinated by the work , but -- as is frequently the case-she traced her own thoughts and her own history in the fiction of the poet .