four in the morning
`` If my aunt 's maid and the other woman have spoken the truth , you may depend upon it the tradesman _ did _ meet her . The girl 's attack of illness was a blind to deceive us . She had some guilty reason for going to the town secretly . The paint-stained dress is a dress of hers ; and the fire heard crackling in her room at four in the morning was a fire lit to destroy it . Rosanna Spearman has stolen the Diamond . I 'll go in directly , and tell my aunt the turn things have taken . '' `` Not just yet , if you please , sir , '' said a melancholy voice behind us .