At last the clock struck ten.

He paused and stood listening for over a minute; then he resumed his walk again, and continued his measured paces for over ten minutes longer, intending to give his erring son the benefit of that space of time.

But he yielded thus much in his favor in vain.

Anger at this deliberate disobedience of a positive order then displaced a portion of anxiety, and he closed, mentally, the door upon his child for that night.
Of his purpose, Mr.Howland said nothing to his wife.

He hoped that she would be asleep before Andrew returned, if he returned at all before morning.