About one o'clock
Bless your child , who will be to-morrow the spouse of Heaven . This letter , in some measure , reassured me ; however I had , also , a vigil to keep . At nightfall I went to a pavilion I had built , near my father 's monument , in expiation of this fatal night . About one o'clock I heard Murphy 's voice . He came from the convent in order to inform me that , as I had feared , my unhappy child , spite of her resolution , had not had sufficient strength to accomplish this barbarous custom . At eight o'clock in the evening Fleur-de-Marie knelt and prayed until midnight , but , overpowered by her emotion and the intense cold , she fainted ; two nuns instantly raised her , and bore her to her cell . David was instantly summoned , and Murphy came to me .