about one o'clock
Keep out of his saicrets I advise you ; an ' , above all things , avoid everything mane an ' dishonest ; for , Charley , I have a kind o ' likin ' for you that I ca n't explain , although I do n't love you as a sweetheart . Good-night again ! '' She left him abruptly , and at a rapid pace proceeded back to the Grey Stone , around which she walked , with a view of examining whether or not there might be any cause visible , earthly or otherwise , for the groans which they had heard ; but notwithstanding a close and diligent search , she could neither see nor hear anything whatsoever to which they might possibly be ascribed . She reached home about one o'clock , and after having sat musing for a time over the fire , which was raked for the night -- that is , covered over with greeshaugh , or living ashes -- she was preparing to sleep in her humble bed , behind a little partition wall about five feet high , at the lower end of the cabin , when her father , who had been moaning , and staring , and uttering abrupt exclamations in his sleep , at length rose up , and began deliberately to dress himself , as if with an intention of going out . `` Father , '' said she , `` in the name of goodness , where are you goin ' at this time o ' the night ? '' `` I 'm goin ' to the murdhered man 's grave , '' he replied , `` I 'm goin ' to toll them all how he was murdhered , an ' who it was that murdhered him . '' A girl with nerves less firm would have felt a most deadly terror at such language , on perceiving , as Sarah at once did , that her father , whose eyes were shut , was fast asleep at the time .