ten o'clock
`` Oh , how distressed my mother will be when she finds I am gone ! '' sighed Miriam , after a brief silence , in which her thoughts reverted to the fact of her absence from home . `` When can we get back again ? '' `` Not before ten o'clock to-night . We must go on as far as Bristol , and then return by the evening line from New York . '' Another deep sigh heaved the troubled bosom of Miriam , as she uttered , in a low voice , speaking to herself -- `` My poor mother ! Her heart will be broken ! ''