two o'clock
You can no more stop this thing than you can stop living by ceasing to breathe . It has come . '' She heard him in his room for some time after that , and she surmised from the way he moved , from closet to bed and back again , that he was packing a bag . At two o'clock she heard Olga coming in ; the girl was singing in Russian , and Elinor had a sickening conviction that she had been drinking . She heard Doyle send her off to bed , his voice angry and disgusted , and resume his packing , and ten minutes later she heard a car draw up on the street , and knew that he was off , to begin the mobilization of his heterogeneous forces . Ever since she had been able to leave her bed Elinor had been formulating a plan of escape . Once the door had been left unlocked , but her clothing had been removed from the room , and then , too , she had not learned the thing she was waiting for .