about three o'clock in the morning
`` If we 're here to feel anything , '' added Violet gloomily . For a long time the girls lay wide-eyed and quiet , but gradually the law of nature asserted itself . Their eyelids drooped , and the deep regular breathing showed that they were asleep . It was about three o'clock in the morning that it happened . Tortured by dreams in which she was being chased by a ghost in goggles and a green motor car , Violet finally awoke and lay staring out at the dark . Then suddenly she sat up . Her dream had followed her into the world of reality .