one o'clock in the
morning
I procured at once the name of the nearest minister and a rope ladder -- you have no idea how primitively these matters were arranged in those days in the United States . I daresay that may be so still . And at one o'clock in the morning of the 4th of August I was standing in Florence 's bedroom . I was so one-minded in my purpose that it never struck me there was anything improper in being , at one o'clock in the morning , in Florence 's bedroom . I just wanted to wake her up . She was not , however , asleep . She expected me , and her relatives had only just left her .