five o'clock
`` Hush , Beppo ! '' she whispered . `` Do n't roar so . It 's only five o'clock , and every one else in the house is asleep . Not even the maids have stirred , and as for Teresina -- listen to her ! She sleeps like the dead , though less quietly , yet she rouses at once if the baby stirs , and if we should wake the baby at this hour , she would be angry at us all day long . '' They listened for a moment to the appalling sounds which rolled forth from the room where Teresina , the nurse , slept .