four
o'clock in the morning
`` No ! '' `` Then what brought you here ? '' `` I come this way sometimes . I have got to go to the farther side of the wood this time of the year , and am obliged to get there before four o'clock in the morning , to begin heating the oven for the early baking . I have passed by here often at this time . '' Grace looked at her quickly . `` Then did you know I was here ? ''