ten in the evening
Within the hour I am off . '' `` Then all is well , '' said Captain Audaine . But he was wrong in this opinion , so wrong that I confute him by subjoining his own account of what befell , somewhat later in the day . 'T was hard upon ten in the evening -LRB- the Captain estimates -RRB- when I left Lady Culcheth 's , -LSB- Footnote : Sir Henry Muskerry 's daughter , of whom I have already spoken , and by common consent an estimable lady and a person of fine wit ; but my infatuation for Lady Betty had by this time , after three nights with her , been puffed out ; and this fortunate extinction , through the affair of the broken snuffbox , had left me now entirely indifferent to all her raptures , panegyrics , and premeditated artlessnesses . -- F. A. -RSB- and I protest that at the time there was not a happier man in all Tunbridge than Francis Audaine . `` You have n't the king ? '' Miss Allonby was saying , as I made my adieus to the company .