ten o'clock
`` I met her that very night ; for , you see , she had gone to a cottage and taken off her clothes , having insisted upon her fancy man going back to Portsmouth to fetch her others to go home in . He dared not refuse , so off he went in the pickle that he was . But he did n't come back again , for , you see , there was a warrant out against him for an affray at Bear Haven , in which a King 's officer was killed ; and after he had changed his own clothes , and was proceeding to get some for her from the Chequers , he was met by the constable who had the warrant , and carried off handcuffed to jail , and afterward he was transported -- so she never saw him again . Well , Peggy , poor creature , had been waiting for him for hours , expecting his return ; and it was past ten o'clock when I was coming down with some others , and saw her at the door of the cottage weeping . '' ` Good-night , Peggy , ' says I. '' ` Oh , Philip , do be kind , do come to me ; I 'm frightened out of my life . I shall have to stay here all night . ' `` So , you see , I did feel some little pity for her , and I went up to her , and she told me how she had sent him , and he had never come back again . ''