seven o'clock in the morning
And during her frantic nights the violence of her detestation was but an added torture . There were times even , and this was so now , when she sought by bodily force to gain possession of the drug which she had hidden under the carpet or beneath the pillows of the couch , and in order to control her struggles , he was obliged to resort to his greater physical strength . After this she looked up and cursed him with a wonderful florid , almost oriental splendour of language , while throwing off his coat , he brushed from him the hanging shreds of the torn pink chiffon gown . At seven o'clock in the morning when the nurse came to relieve him , he was still sitting , as he had sat all night , in a chair beside Connie 's bed . `` So she has had one of her bad attacks , I feared it , '' said the nurse , with a sympathetic glance directed less at Connie than at her husband . `` Yes , it was bad , '' repeated Adams quietly ; and then rising to his feet he staggered like a drunken man into his bedroom across the hall . Still wearing his evening clothes he flung himself heavily upon the sofa and fell at once into the profound sleep of acute bodily exhaustion .