two o'clock in the morning
She wore a white gown , and a great resplendent moon overhead bathed her in its silvery radiance . She might have been an angel alighting upon the earth and ready to wing her way back to heaven with the dawn of day . When we reached the Manoir Cheverny I went direct to my bed , but the brothers remained an hour or more in conversation in Gaston 's room . It was near two o'clock in the morning when they parted in the corridor upon which my chamber opened , and I heard Gaston 's clear voice saying : `` Brother , you have chosen another country than I ; we can no longer say _ Un Foy , Un Loy , Un Roy _ , but we need not be any the less brothers . '' `` True , '' replied Regnard . `` Our mother 's father chose another faith , another law , another king , when he left Scotland , wherefore should I not rather be Austrian than French if I like ? How many times has this province changed sovereigns ?