six in the morning
Lady Maltravers feared that her husband was very seriously ill . On the Wednesday , two days before she wrote , he had suffered all day from a strange restlessness , which had increased after they had retired in the evening . He could not sleep and had dressed again , saying he would walk a little in the night air to compose himself . He had not returned till near six in the morning , and then seemed so exhausted that he had since been confined to his bed . He was terribly pale , and the doctors feared he had been attacked by some strange fever . The date of the letter was the 25th of October , fixing the night of the 23d as the time of Sir John 's first attack . The coincidence of the date with that of the day missing in Temple 's diary was significant , but it was not needed now to convince me that Sir John 's ruin was due to something that occurred on that fatal night at Naples .