ten o'clock
`` Out -- to Eda 's , '' Janet answered ... `` It 's late , '' Hannah objected . But Janet departed . Instead of going to Eda 's she walked alone , seeking the quieter streets that her thoughts might flow undisturbed . At ten o'clock , when she returned , the light was out in the diningroom , her sister had not come in , and she began slowly to undress , pausing every now and then to sit on the bed and dream ; once she surprised herself gazing into the glass with a rapt expression that was almost a smile . What was it about her that had attracted Ditmar ? No other man had ever noticed it . She had never thought herself good looking , and now -- it was astonishing !