ten o’clock
He paused a moment as if dumfounded or uncertain how to answer such a speech , and then turned and walked away . This was only an hour after dinner : I knew he would find it very dull to sit alone all the evening ; and this considerably softened my resentment , though it did not make me relent . I was determined to show him that my heart was not his slave , and I could live without him if I chose ; and I sat down and wrote a long letter to my aunt , of course telling her nothing of all this . Soon after ten o'clock I heard him come up again , but he passed my door and went straight to his own dressing-room , where he shut himself in for the night . I was rather anxious to see how he would meet me in the morning , and not a little disappointed to behold him enter the breakfast-room with a careless smile . ` Are you cross still , Helen ? ' said he , approaching as if to salute me .