about three o'clock
In another week he would be ready for the prison doctor , but not yet . These things must take their course . It was always the same course ; he had been a warder twenty years , and knew almost to an hour the date on which , after the arrest , the doctor would be required . Axel was sitting in the same position when , about three o'clock , the door was unlocked again . He did not move or open his eyes . '' _ Ihr Fräulein Braut ist hier _ , '' said the warder . The word _ Braut _ , betrothed , sent Axel 's thoughts back across the years to Hildegard .