6 o'clock
Helen did not answer at once . For a moment or two her manner seemed to indicate that she did not hear the questions of the girl in bed . Then , as if suddenly rescuing her mind from thoughts that appealed to have carried her away into some far distant abstraction , she replied thus , in a series of disconnected utterances : `` No , the alarm did n't go off -- a -- Marion . I got up at 6 o'clock . I turned the alarm off . It is 6:30 now . I do n't know what woke me .