About eight o'clock
Expectation , and hope , and doubt , -LRB- an uneasy state ! -RRB- kept me sufficiently wakeful . I stept down at my usual time , that it might not be known I had not been in bed ; and gave directions in the family way . About eight o'clock , Shorey came to me from my mother with orders to attend her in her chamber . My mother had been weeping , I saw by her eyes : but her aspect seemed to be less tender , and less affectionate , than the day before ; and this , as soon as I entered into her presence , struck me with an awe , which gave a great damp to my spirits . Sit down , Clary Harlowe ; I shall talk to you by-and-by : and continued looking into a drawer among laces and linens , in a way neither busy nor unbusy . I believe it was a quarter of an hour before she spoke to me -LRB- my heart throbbing with the suspense all the time -RRB- ; and then she asked me coldly , What directions I had given for the day ?