about eight o'clock in the morning
A third time she knocked and called her husband 's name . Then , trembling with anguish , under a premonition of the sight that awaited her , she pushed open the door . Between her and the window , black against the sun 's first rays , hung her husband 's body suspended above an overturned chair . All through the night that was so sorrowful for the Fellner family the Baroness von Bülow was travelling rapidly to Berlin , where she arrived about eight o'clock in the morning . In any other circumstances she would have written to the queen , asked for an audience , and fulfilled all the requirements of etiquette . But there was no time to lose ; General von Roeder had allowed only four-and-twenty hours for the payment of the indemnity . It was due at ten o'clock , and in case of refusal the city was threatened with immediate pillage and bombardment .