two o'clock
The third time he was deciding whether or not to set fire to it again -- he remembered that -- and remembered nothing more , except the haunted dreams in which he followed _ her _ , through sad and endless forests , gray in deepening twilight , where he could neither see her face nor reach her side , nor utter the cry which strained in his throat ... . On , on , endlessly struggling onward in the thickening darkness , year after year , the sky a lowering horror , the forest , no longer silent , a twisting , stupefying confusion of sound , growing , increasing , breaking into a hellish clamour ! -- Upright on his bed he realised that somebody was knocking ; and he slid to the floor , still stupid and scarcely convinced . `` Mrs. Carrick 's compliments , and is Mr. Hamil quite well bein ' as the lights is burnin ' an ' past two o'clock , sir ? '' said the maid at the door . `` Past _ two _ ! O Lord !