five o'clock
He said them without any boy-excitement ; they carried their own excitement in the heart of them . In those eight hours he had lived like a man ; in an experience that until of late few men have known . They did not know how long they stood there after that , with scarcely a word to each other , -- only now and then some utterance of sudden recollection of this and that which must have vanished away within that stricken territory , -- taking in , slowly , the reality , the tremendousness of what had happened , -- was happening . It was five o'clock when Mr. Hewland came in , and up the stairs , and found them there . Aunt Blin had not awaked . There was a trace of morphine in her cough-drops , and Bel knew now , since she had slept so long , that she would doubtless sleep late into the morning . That was well .