five o'clock
he asked quietly . ` We do not know , ' the Mother answered . ` When it is a little later I will telephone for news . It is barely five o'clock yet . ' ` Thank you , Mother . ' He shut his eyes again and said no more . The Mother Superior opened the window and let in the fresh morning air , full of the glow of the rising sun , for the room looked to the eastward , across the broad bend of the Tiber and towards the Palatine .