eleven
o’clock
Directly he observed her , he sought the shelter of an archway , and stood aside until she had passed . Then he emerged cautiously from his hiding-place , and followed . She went into several shops to purchase various kinds of household necessaries , and round every place at which she stopped he hovered like her evil spirit ; following her when she reappeared . It was nigh eleven o'clock , and the passengers in the streets were thinning fast , when she turned , doubtless to go home . The phantom still followed her . She turned into the same bye street in which he had seen her first , which , being free from shops , and narrow , was extremely dark . She quickened her pace here , as though distrustful of being stopped , and robbed of such trifling property as she carried with her .