nearly eight
in the morning
The sun was shining bright and clear when she opened her eyes on the light the next morning . How strangely still the house seemed ! For a moment Jessie was bewildered . Had it not been that the sun lay in a great bar in the center of the room -- and it never reached this point until nearly eight in the morning -- she would have thought that it was very , very early . `` My wedding-day ! '' murmured the girl , slipping from her couch and gazing through the lace-draped windows on the white world without . But at that moment a maid entered and she told Jessie Bain the story of the tragedy .