three o'clock in the morning
You 're all right , whatever you do -- if I did think you were rather off your head at first , '' promised Jeff , sturdily . He was never known to fail Charlotte in an emergency . Whether it was the strange surroundings or something wrong about the last meal of the day can not be stated , but Baby Ellen did wake up . It was at three o'clock in the morning that Charlotte , who , excited by the strangeness of the situation , had but just fallen asleep , was roused by a small wail . The baby seemed not to know her in the trailing blue kimono , with her two long curly braids swinging over her shoulders , and in spite of all that Charlotte could do , the infantile anguish of spirit soon filled the house . Charlotte walked the floor with her , alternately murmuring consolation and singing the lullabies of her own childhood ; but the uproar continued . It is astonishing what an amount of disturbance one small pair of lungs can produce .