a quarter
to one o'clock
He put the candle down , and bowed himself out of the room . Chester looked round the large , bare sleeping chamber in which he found himself with the agreeable feeling that his long , hot , exciting day was now at an end . Yes , it was a pleasant room -- bare , and yet furnished with everything essential to comfort . Thus there was a good big , roomy arm-chair , a writing-table , and a clock , of which the hands now pointed to a quarter to one o'clock . The broad , low bed , pushed back into an alcove as is the French fashion , looked delightfully cool and inviting by the light of his one candle . When M. Malfait had shown him into the room the window was wide open to the hot , starless night , but the landlord , though he had left the window open , had drawn the thick curtains across it . That was all right ; Chester had no wish to be wakened at five in the morning by the sunlight streaming into the room .