nearly ten o'clock
That was Doctor Warren 's shadow , bent and feeble , that he saw upon the yellow light of the window-shade a moment ago , and he is worried at the evidence of increasing weakness and sorrow . Even while he rests there , irresolute as to what he ought to do -- whether to go and insist on his right , as a man and a father , to be of some comfort to another in his sore trial , or to respect that father 's evident wish to conceal his daughter 's interest in the trouble that had come upon them -- he is startled to see another shadow , hers ; and this shadow is in hat and veil . Whither can they be going at this hour of the night ? 'T is nearly ten o'clock . Yes , surely ; there is the doctor 's bent shadow once more , and he has thrown on an outer coat of some kind . Then they are going back by the night train . They shrink from having it known that she was here at all ; that she was in any way interested .