ten o'clock
Oh , how she longed for her brave , blunt , outspoken Luce that night ! He could find a way of helping Ray , and would do it despite all the official trammels that the post commander could devise . She was sick at heart , but next door lay a woman whose unrest was greater still , whose trouble seemed more than she could bear . Mrs. Truscott had arrived at the conclusion before ten o'clock that night that she was the most miserable woman on the face of the globe . Jack 's letter arriving the day previous was as kind , as well expressed , and as thoughtful a screed as ever mortal husband penned , but , being like other husbands , only mortal , he had failed to bring about the exact effect which was intended . Whether this was his fault or hers could not be determined entirely by an inspection of a copy of the letter , since letters may be read with a thousand different inflections , and the most passionate heart-offering be made to sound like a torrent of sarcasm . Perhaps it is neither here nor there whose fault it was .