about two o'clock
For several days he was prostrate with extreme exhaustion . Necessarily , I knew nothing of this ; neither was I , notwithstanding my more than doubt of his mother , in any immediate dread of what she might do . The cessation of his visits could , of course , cause me no anxiety , seeing it was thoroughly understood between us that we were not at liberty to meet . On the fifth night after that on which he left me to walk home , I was roused , about two o'clock , by a sharp sound as of sudden hail against my window , ceasing as soon as it began . Wondering what it was , for hail it could hardly be , I sprang from the bed , pulled aside the curtain , and looked out . There was light enough in the moon to show me a man looking up at the window , and love enough in my heart to tell me who he was . How he knew the window mine , I have always forgotten to ask him .