About four o'clock
Once he whispered her name . `` Lilly -- awake ? '' She deepened her breathing . About four o'clock he dozed off , swooning deeply into sleep , his lips opening and a slight snore coming . She lay with her eyes open to the darkness , letting it lave over her as if it were water and she had drowned in it with her gaze wide . She felt bathed in a colorless fluid of unreality . Those Swiss window curtains !