eight o'clock
Fearing the arrival of strangers , I now withdrew . I tidied up my rooms , and laid out on the scarlet velvet of my lovely table all the materials necessary for writing to you , meditating all the while on my new situation . This , my fair sweetheart , is a true and veracious account of the return of a girl of eighteen , after an absence of nine years , to the bosom of one of the noblest families in the kingdom . I was tired by the journey as well as by all the emotions I had been through , so I went to bed in convent fashion , at eight o'clock after supper . They have preserved even a little Saxe service which the dear Princess used when she had a fancy for taking her meals alone . II . THE SAME TO THE SAME November 25th .