ten o’clock
His room was shut up close . The conservatory doors were standing open , and Rosa Dartle was walking , bareheaded , with a quick , impetuous step , up and down a gravel walk on one side of the lawn . She gave me the idea of some fierce thing , that was dragging the length of its chain to and fro upon a beaten track , and wearing its heart out . I came softly away from my place of observation , and avoiding that part of the neighbourhood , and wishing I had not gone near it , strolled about until it was ten o'clock . The church with the slender spire , that stands on the top of the hill now , was not there then to tell me the time . An old red-brick mansion , used as a school , was in its place ; and a fine old house it must have been to go to school at , as I recollect it . When I approached the Doctor 's cottage -- a pretty old place , on which he seemed to have expended some money , if I might judge from the embellishments and repairs that had the look of being just completed -- I saw him walking in the garden at the side , gaiters and all , as if he had never left off walking since the days of my pupilage .