nearly ten o'clock
Never had she known to such a degree what a delight a body can be , the sense of its eagerness to bring to the mind all the glorious pleasures of the senses . Whatever disinclination she had toward him was altogether a prompting of class education ; now that she had let down the bars and released feeling she was in heart glad he was there with her , glad he was `` such a MAN of a man . '' The guides made a huge fire down by the shore , and left them alone . They sat by it until nearly ten o'clock , he talking incessantly ; her overtures had roused in him the desire to please , and , instead of the usual monologue of egotism and rant , he poured out poetry , eloquence , sense and humorous shrewdness . Had he been far less the unusual , the great man , she would still have listened with a sense of delight , for in her mood that night his penetrating voice , which , in other moods , she found as insupportable as a needle-pointed goad , harmonized with the great , starry sky and the mysterious , eerie shadows of forest and mountain and lake close round their huge , bright fire . As they rose to go in , up came the moon . A broad , benevolent , encouraging face , the face of a matchmaker .