ten o'clock
To-day 's entertainment , the dinner , the conversation , and the excitement are so many drops of narcotic . She does not even suppose what happiness there is in store for us ; but she must surrender her soul to me , wholly and unconditionally . Though my aunt had notified Pani Celina that we might remain at Warsaw until the next day , we really intended going back after dinner , -- when something occurred that prevented our starting . Dinner and tea afterwards lasted until ten o'clock . When the last of our guests had departed somebody came to tell my aunt that Naughty Boy had been taken ill . There was a great confusion . The vet was sent for in a hurry , but it was midnight before he arrived .