ten o'clock at night
It was a vain hope that , however . For , although he dressed and went out and haunted the neighbourhood of Sir Horace Wyvern 's house for hours on end , he saw nothing of her that day . Nor did he see her the next , nor the next , nor yet the next again . At first , he began to think that she must come out and return during the times when he was obliged to go off guard and get his meal -- for he could not bring himself to play the part of the spy or the common policeman , and filch news from the servants -- but when a week had gone by in this manner , he set all question upon that point at rest by remaining at his post from sunrise to ten o'clock at night . She did not appear . He wondered what that meant -- whether it indicated that she had already accepted one of the two positions , or had gone to stop with her friend on the other side of Hampstead Heath . The result of that wondering was that , for the next five days , the gentleman who was known in Clarges Street as `` Captain Horatio Burbage , '' became a regular visitor to the neighbourhood of the house in Bardon Road .