two o’clock
He would have persuaded her to go to bed , but she declared that sleep was impossible ; she had much rather sit up with him till news came of Alice , as it surely must do in course of the night . For Mutimer there was no resting ; he circled continually about the neighbouring streets , returning to the house every quarter of an hour , always to find Adela in the same position . Her heart would not fall to its normal beat , and the vision of those harsh faces would not pass from her mind . At two o'clock they heard that Alice was found . She had been discovered several miles from home , lying unconscious in the street , and was now in a hospital . Mutimer set off at once ; he returned with the report that she was between life and death . It was impossible to remove her .