ten o’clock
From time to time , as he passed it , he looked in absently at the room which had formerly been Mrs. Armadale 's , which was now -LRB- through his interposition -RRB- habitually occupied by her son -- the room with the Statuette on the bracket , and the French windows opening to the ground , which had once recalled to him the Second Vision of the Dream . The Shadow of the Man , which Allan had seen standing opposite to him at the long window ; the view over a lawn and flower-garden ; the pattering of the rain against the glass ; the stretching out of the Shadow 's arm , and the fall of the statue in fragments on the floor -- these objects and events of the visionary scene , so vividly present to his memory once , were all superseded by later remembrances now , were all left to fade as they might in the dim background of time . He could pass the room again and again , alone and anxious , and never once think of the boat drifting away in the moonlight , and the night 's imprisonment on the Wrecked Ship ! Toward ten o'clock the well-remembered sound of Allan 's voice became suddenly audible in the direction of the stables . In a moment more he was visible from the garden . His second morning 's search for Neelie had ended to all appearance in a second defeat of his object . The nosegay was still in his hand ; and he was resignedly making a present of it to one of the coachman 's children .