one
o'clock before
And what comfort it was to lie down , and feel all the throbs and pulses gradually subsiding , the fright going off , the satisfaction of success coming back , and gradually a slumberous , delicious ease stealing over her . Of all the clever things Phoebe had done in her life , it must be allowed that there was not one so masterly as the fact that she , then and there , went to sleep . All this had taken up a good deal of time . It was twelve when Mr. Simpson of the bank disturbed the lovers in the garden , and it was one o'clock before Phoebe put a stop to all Tozer 's vindictive plans by going to bed . What he said to Mr. Simpson , when he went back to him , is not on record . That excellent man of business was much put out by the long waiting , and intimated plainly enough that he could not allow his time to be thus wasted . Mr. Simpson began to think that there was something very strange in the whole business .