ten o’clock
That riddle was read now . There would be a stormy scene in the morning when he came to tell Annette that he had solved it , and thinking of how he should face it , and of what means were the likeliest to lead to ultimate victory , he lost something of the sickness of his pain . He undressed and lay down in the dark , but there was no sleep for him until long after the window-blind had grown amber-tinted with the gleam of the level sun upon it . When he awoke his watch told him that it was near ten o'clock . He rang for his bath , dressed , breakfasted , met the people of the house , and answered their friendly inquiries as to his journey all pretty much as if nothing had occurred to change the whole horizon of his life . He made no inquiries as to Annette , and no news came to him with regard to her . It was near noonday when Laurent came into his study , very grave and gray , and looking as if he , too , had had a night of severe trouble .