two in the morning
`` Tell it all , '' her husband said , quite gravely too . `` Well -- something came in . At least , she describes it oddly , rather ; she said it made the door bulge inwards from the next room , but not the door alone ; the walls bulged or swayed as if a huge thing pressed against them from the other side . And at the same moment her windows -- she had two big balconies , and the venetian shutters were fastened -- both her windows _ darkened _ -- though it was two in the morning and pitch dark outside . She said it was all _ one _ thing -- trying to get in ; just as water , you see , would rush in through every hole and opening it could find , and all at once . And in spite of her terror -- that 's the odd part of it -- she says she felt a kind of splendour in her -- a sort of elation . '' `` She saw nothing ? ''