three in the morning
''' They went to bed . As she fell asleep , Madame Jules said to herself : -- `` Monsieur de Maulincour will certainly cause some evil . Jules ' mind is preoccupied , disturbed ; he is nursing thoughts he does not tell me . '' It was three in the morning when Madame Jules was awakened by a presentiment which struck her heart as she slept . She had a sense both physical and moral of her husband 's absence . She did not feel the arm Jules passed beneath her head , -- that arm in which she had slept , peacefully and happy , for five years ; an arm she had never wearied . A voice said to her , `` Jules suffers , Jules is weeping . ''