ten o'clock
And he would come back to her from them , watchful for suspicion , relieved when he did not find it , and bringing her small gifts which would be actually burnt offerings to his own soul . She made up her mind to give him up . She would go home in the morning , make her peace with them all , and never see Louis Akers again . She slept after that , and at ten o'clock Elinor wakened her with the word that her father was downstairs . Elinor was very pale . It had been a shock to her to see her brother in her home after all the years , and a still greater one when he had put his arm around her and kissed her . `` I am so sorry , Howard , '' she had said .