three in the morning
`` I 'll try to bring him through all right , Celia . You must believe that we are coming back . '' So they parted . And at three in the morning , Celia , lying in her bed , started to a sitting posture . Very far away in the night reveille was sounding for some regiment outward bound ; and then the bugles blew for another regiment and another , and another , until everywhere the darkened world grew gaily musical with the bugle 's warning . She crept to the window ; it was too dusky to see . But in obscurity she felt that not far away husband and son were passing through darkness toward the mystery of the great unknown ; and there , in her night-dress , she knelt by the sill , hour after hour , straining her eyes and listening until dawn whitened the east and the rivers began to marshal their ghostly hosts .