two o’clock
If Mr. Dare would give up his room , and share a double-bedded room with Mr. Havill , the thing could be done , but not otherwise . To this the two companions agreed , and presently went upstairs with as gentlemanly a walk and vertical a candle as they could exhibit under the circumstances . The other inmates of the inn soon retired to rest , and the storm raged on unheeded by all local humanity . At two o'clock the rain lessened its fury . At half-past two the obscured moon shone forth ; and at three Havill awoke . The blind had not been pulled down overnight , and the moonlight streamed into the room , across the bed whereon Dare was sleeping . He lay on his back , his arms thrown out ; and his well-curved youthful form looked like an unpedestaled Dionysus in the colourless lunar rays .