About three o'clock
Nevertheless , when at the end of the sermon she left the building and went once more into the soaking streets some sense of expectation was with her , so that she hastened into her aunt 's house as though she would find that some strange event had occurred in her absence . Nothing , of course , had occurred . During the afternoon the rain ceased to fall and a dim , grey light , born of an intense silence , enveloped the town . About three o'clock the aunts went out to some religious gathering and Maggie was left to herself . She discovered in Aunt Elizabeth 's bedroom a bound volume of Good Words , and with this seated herself by the drawing-room fire . Soon she slept . She was awakened by a consciousness that some one was in the room and , sitting up , staring through the gloom , heard a movement near the door , a rustle , a little jingle , a laugh .