nine o'clock
It was a beautiful and a peaceful scene and Clavering , whose spirits had descended into utter gloom while enwrapped in that sinister fog , accepted it as a happier portent ; and when he was so fortunate as to find an empty drawing-room on the Express , he went to bed and slept until the porter awoke him at Tarrytown . It was his first impulse to rush direct to Murray Hill , but he knew the folly of doing anything of the sort . He needed a bath and a shave and a fortifying dinner . He concluded that it would be unwise to telephone , and at nine o'clock he approached her house , reasonably calm and quite determined to have his own way . But the house was dark from cellar to roof . Every window was closed although it was a warm night . He sprang up the steps and rang the bell .