nine o'clock
The final assault was marshalling its forces . M. Dubosc worn out with fatigue , did not get up that afternoon . Simon also threw himself on his bed , fully dressed , and slept until evening . But at nine o'clock a shock awakened them . Simon thought that the window , which suddenly burst open , had given away under the pressure of the wind . A second shock , more plainly defined , brought down the door of his room ; and he felt himself spinning on his own axis , with the walls circling round him . He ran downstairs and found his father in the garden with the servants , one and all bewildered and uttering incoherent phrases .