one o'clock
Over the top of the door was a small cupboard in the wall , into which she had never looked until the day before , when she opened it and found it empty . She placed a table under it , and a chair on the table , climbed up , laid in it everything she had taken off the child , locked the door of it , put the key in her pocket , and got down . Then she took the cloak and hood he had hitherto worn out of doors , laid them down beside the wardrobe , and lifting the end of it with a strength worthy of the blacksmith 's daughter , pushed them with her foot into the hollow between the bottom of the wardrobe and the floor of the room . This done , she looked at the timepiece on the mantelshelf , saw it was one o'clock , and sat down to recover her breath . But the next moment she was on her knees , sobbing . By and by she rose , wiped the hot tears from her eyes , and went carefully about the room , gathering up this and that , and putting it into her box . Then having locked it , she stuffed a number of small pieces of paper into the lock , using a crochet-needle to get them well among the wards .