nearly eleven o'clock before
That was Noireau . But already my exhilaration was exchanged for profound anxiety . I extorted from the Norman all the information he possessed concerning the bankrupt ; it was not much , and it only served to heighten my solicitude . It was nearly eleven o'clock before we entered the town ; but I learned a few more particulars from the middle-aged woman in the omnibus bureau . She recollected the name of Miss Ellen Martineau , and her arrival ; and she described her with the accuracy and faithfulness of a woman . If she were not Olivia herself , she must be her very counterpart . But who was the child , a girl of nine or ten years of age , who had accompanied her ?