quarter after eleven
All the latent forces of her character concentrated themselves in this one feature . She might command her eyes , but she could not control the muscles of her mouth . She rose from before her dressing-table , and took a dark velvet cloak and bonnet from the recesses of her wardrobe , and dressed herself for walking . The little ormolu clock on the chimney-piece struck the quarter after eleven while Lady Audley was employed in this manner ; five minutes afterward she re-entered the room in which she had left Phoebe Marks . The innkeeper 's wife was sitting before the low fender very much in the same attitude as that in which her late mistress had brooded over that lonely hearth earlier in the evening . Phoebe had replenished the fire , and had reassumed her bonnet and shawl . She was anxious to get home to that brutal husband , who was only too apt to fall into some mischief in her absence .