two o’clock in the morning
Is that what you truly want ? ` A woman will do anything for a man but renounce him ! ' Did you not shudder for me when you wrote those words ? `` It is two o'clock in the morning , and so far I have not been able to sleep . I have lain awake with torturing thoughts ; and then the baby wakened up , and I had to put him to sleep again -- any indisposition of mine always affects him . I am sitting on the floor at the foot of the bed , writing with a candle ; and hoping to get myself sufficiently exhausted , so that I shall no longer lie awake . `` Go and find your vision over my corpse , and may God bless you !