about one in the morning
Also my quarrel with the _ predicant _ had put me out of temper . When I had got over this fit I set to work to tidy Suzanne 's little sleeping place , and that I found a sad task . Then Jan returned from the waggon , having bid farewell to the young couple , an hour 's trek away , and his head being clear by now , we talked over the plans of the new house which was to be built for them to live in , and , going down to the site of it , set it out with sticks and a rule , which gave us occupation till towards sunset , when it was time for him to go to see to the cattle . That night we went to bed early , for we were tired , and slept a heavy sleep , till at length , about one in the morning , we were awakened by the shoutings of the messengers who came bearing the terrible news . Ralph and Suzanne reached their outspan place in safety a little before sunset . I used to know the spot well ; it is where one of the numerous wooden kloofs that scar the mountain slopes ends on a grassy plain of turf , short but very sweet . This plain is not much more than five hundred paces wide , for it is bordered by the cliff , that just here is not very high , against which the sea beats at full tide .