one o'clock in the morning of the 4th of August
And , from something that he let drop -- an odd Biblical phrase that I have forgotten -- I gathered that all that family simply did not intend her to marry ever in her life . I procured at once the name of the nearest minister and a rope ladder -- you have no idea how primitively these matters were arranged in those days in the United States . I daresay that may be so still . And at one o'clock in the morning of the 4th of August I was standing in Florence 's bedroom . I was so one-minded in my purpose that it never struck me there was anything improper in being , at one o'clock in the morning , in Florence 's bedroom . I just wanted to wake her up . She was not , however , asleep .