five o'clock
Looking round the room , Juliet saw on the boards close to the door the same basin of bread-and-milk which she had refused to eat on the previous evening . Mrs. Bosher must have put it in noiselessly while her prisoner was asleep . The prisoner could not resist her fare this morning , but ate it all up , though the milk was just what she called `` on the turn . '' She did not know what the time was ; the sun rose so early that he shone as brightly at five o'clock as at seven o'clock . What did it matter ? Juliet could not get out until her jailer chose to release her . As soon as Mrs. Bosher opened the house-door , or sent her out for water , or for a cabbage , or to hang up wet linen , she would make off and run away somewhere .