about seven o'clock
in the morning
I intended to be with her when she first learned this terrible fact , which I knew would put an end to all hope in her heart ; but I was in no hurry for her to wake up . I very much hoped she would sleep until we reached the city , and then we could take her directly to her kind friends . And she did sleep until we reached the city . It was about seven o'clock in the morning , I think , when we began to steam slowly by the wharves and piers . I now wished the city were twenty miles further on . I knew that when we stopped I should have to wake up poor Corny . The city looked doleful .