ten o’clock
She would not have come to him empty-handed , very far from it , indeed . Oh ! were it not for the unlucky fact that she still happened to care about him -- to her sorrow -- never , never would she speak to him again . The last of our three friends to awake on this particular morning , between nine and ten o'clock , indeed , when Dirk had been already two hours at his factory and Lysbeth was buying provisions in the market place , was that accomplished and excellent officer , Captain the Count Juan de Montalvo . For a few seconds after his dark eyes opened he stared at the ceiling collecting his thoughts . Then , sitting up in bed , he burst into a prolonged roar of laughter . Really the whole thing was too funny for any man of humour to contemplate without being moved to merriment .