About four o'clock in the morning
... How far off they seemed now ! -- They sat silently round the meager fire : then they all knelt by the bed and said their prayers : and they went to bed very early , for they had to be up before dawn . But it was long before they slept . About four o'clock in the morning Madame Jeannin , who had looked at her watch every hour or so to see whether it was not time to get ready , lit her candle and got up . Antoinette , who had hardly slept at all , heard her and got up too . Olivier was fast asleep . Madame Jeannin gazed at him tenderly and could not bring herself to wake him .