two o'clock in the morning
After all this I remember nothing , until I awoke , in total darkness , as if out of a heavy confused dream , and felt that I was lying in a soft eider-down bed . Little by little all that had passed dawned upon my recollection , and I comprehended that I had been put to bed in one of the guest-chambers in the neighbouring house . While I lay pondering over this , and feeling intensely unhappy , the elder Señor Martinez came in with a candle in his hand to look after me . It then appeared that it was past two o'clock in the morning , and to the circumstance that I had thus slept six or seven hours in succession I probably owed the fact that I no longer felt any physical indisposition ; but morally I suffered all the more from a feeling of shame . As far as I could understand , as I dressed myself , the house had been turned into a perfect lazaretto for the same class of fallen after dinner as myself , and among them I noticed , with a kind of revengeful joy , Gram the clerk , my hump-backed mischievous neighbour . Señor Martinez made known to me , by all kinds of spirited gesticulations , that dancing was now going on briskly , and that I must join the dancers . The thought that Susanna must have come long ago , and must have been waiting in vain , shot like lightning through my mind .