about two o'clock
However , she returned victorious over the silent dew-laden fields and down into the garden paths , where she paced for two hours back and forth among the aromatic perfumes of the great yellow June lilies . There might have been a bit of poetry in it under other circumstances , but Keturah was not poetically inclined on that occasion . The events of the night had so roused her soul within her , that exercise unto exhaustion was her sole remaining hope of sleep . At about two o'clock she crawled faintly upstairs again , and had just fallen asleep with her head on the window-sill , when a wandering dog had to come directly under the window , and sit there and bark for half an hour at a rake-handle . Keturah made no other effort to fight her destiny . Determined to meet it heroically , she put a chair precisely into the middle of the room , and sat up straight in it , till she heard the birds sing . Somewhere about that epoch she fell into a doze with one eye open , when a terrific peal of thunder started her to her feet .