morning, about ten o'clock
However reserved he might be , and even if he never betrayed by a single word the secret feeling which he concealed so carefully during our intercourse as friends , it would be impossible for me not to feel the constraint of such a situation . So far as he was concerned , it did not seem to trouble him in the least . This demeanour , and this insolent confidence of his -- such as might be expected in a petty feudal tyrant -- irritated me inexpressibly ; but an incident occurred , at first sight insignificant , which diverted the current of my suspicions into quite a different channel . One morning , about ten o'clock , I was accompanying my aunt upon one of her rounds of visiting the poor . As we happened to be passing Count Téral 's house , I was very much surprised to see Daniel coming out of it . What had he been doing there ? This was Kondjé-Gul 's lesson time , and certainly not the time of day for callers .