ten o'clock
There are brief hours of enjoyment -- few and far between -- which are full compensation for years of dull , common-place existence , or even of positive suffering . Cary was very happy , and he might have sat there , before the fire , the live-long night , without ever thinking of his own or his companion 's fatigue . Zulma , while no less absorbed in her own delight , was more considerate . When ten o'clock was reached , she called Batoche from his retreat , and proposed to him the arrangements for the night . After these were settled , she told her old friend that she had a favor to ask him . She wished him to play the violin . He hesitated a moment , then with a quaint smile fetched the instrument from the little room .