eleven at night
Vittoria placed Beppo at her disposal . ` And you run home to bed , ' continued Laura . ` Reason comes to you obstinate people when you are left alone for a time in the dark . ' She hardly listened to Vittoria 's statement that the chief singers in the new opera were engaged to attend a meeting at eleven at night at the house of the maestro Rocco Ricci . There was no concealment as to Laura 's object in making request for the services of Beppo . She herself knew it to be obvious that she intended to probe and cross-examine the man , and in her wilfulness she chose to be obtuse to opinion . She did not even blush to lean a secret ear above the stairs that she might judge , by the tones of Vittoria 's voice upon her giving Beppo the order to wait , whether she was at the same time conveying a hint for guardedness .