ten o'clock
She had no great desire to seek her room . From the street she had already noticed that the dining-room of the hotel was barely lighted and evidently empty . She had supper there , after which she grew tired and sleepy and , with an effort , went up the three flights of stairs to her room . As she sat on the bed and undid her shoe laces , she heard ten o'clock chime in a neighbouring church steeple . When she awoke in the morning she hurried , first of all , to the window and drew up the blinds with a great longing to see the daylight and the town . It was a sunny morning , and the air was as fresh as if it had come flowing down from a thousand springs in the forests and hills into the streets of the town . The beauty of the morning acted on Bertha as a good omen ; she wondered at the strange , foolish manner in which she had spent the previous evening -- as if she had not quite correctly understood why she had come to Vienna .