one o'clock
Anxiety now began to arise in her mind , and the scenes outside lost all charm for her . Her impatience increased till it became intolerable . Miss Chute saw her agitation , and made some attempt to soothe her , but in vain . In fact , by one o'clock , Zillah had given herself up to all sorts of fears . Sometimes she thought that Hilda had grown tired of waiting , and had gone back to England , and was now searching through France and Italy for her ; again she thought that perhaps she had experienced a relapse and had died here in Naples , far away from all friends , while she herself was loitering in Marseilles ; at another time her fears took a more awful turn -- her thoughts turned on Gualtier -- and she imagined that he had , perhaps , come on to Naples to deal to Hilda that fate which he had tried to deal to her . These thoughts were all maddening , and filled her with uncontrollable agitation . She felt sure at last that some dread thing had happened , which Obed Chute had discovered , and which he feared to reveal to her .