four o'clock
One resort alone is left . With a despairing sigh she turns the great faucet of the bath-tub and holds her head under it till she is upon the verge of a watery grave . This experiment is her forlorn hope . Perhaps about three or four o'clock she falls into a series of jerky naps , and dreams that she is editor of a popular Hebrew magazine , wandering frantically through a warehouse full of aspirant MSS . -LRB- chiefly from the junior classes of theological seminaries -RRB- of which she can not translate a letter . Of the tenth of Keturah 's unearthly experiences , -- of the number of times she has been taken for a robber , and chased by the entire roused and bewildered family , with loaded guns ; of the pans of milk she has upset , the crockery whose hopes she has untimely shattered , the skulls she has cracked against open doors , the rocking-chairs she has stumbled over and apostrophized in her own meek way ; of the neighbors she has frightened out of town by her perambulations ; of the alarms of fire she has raised , pacing the wood-shed with a lantern for exercise stormy nights ; of all the possible and impossible corners and crevices in which she has sought repose , -LRB- she has slept on every sofa in every room in the house , and once she spent a whole night on a closet shelf -RRB- ; of the amiable condition of her mornings , and the terror she is fast becoming to family . Church , and State , the time would fail her to tell .