about ten o'clock at night
No white woman can live in that town . It has a sodden intolerable heat peculiar to itself . The air is heavy with brine ; you ca n't sleep at night for its oppression . Well , I was sitting in the verandah on the first floor of the palace about ten o'clock at night , looking out over the harbour and the distillation works , and wondering whether it was worth while to go to bed at all , when a servant told me that a man , who refused to give his name , wished particularly to see me . The man was Feversham . There was only a lamp burning in the verandah , and the night was dark , so that I did not recognise him until he was close to me . '' And at once Ethne interrupted .