three o'clock in the morning
She did as he asked her , just touching his lips with hers , and then she stood by him , leaning on him , while he explained to her something of his plans . He kept close to the window , as it was necessary that he should keep his eyes upon the red house . His plan was this . There was a train which passed by the Nuremberg station on its way to Augsburg at three o'clock in the morning . By this train he proposed that they should travel to that city . He had , he said , the means of providing accommodation for her there , and no one would know whither they had gone . He did not anticipate that any one in the house opposite would learn that Linda had escaped till the next morning ; but should any suspicion have been aroused , and should the fact be ascertained , there would certainly be lights moving in the house , and light would be seen from the window of Linda 's own chamber .