a quarter to six
And when you see her going about in the daytime you would never think she could do it . '' Terry thought it would be quite easy to lie awake , waiting , for three hours . However , after listening for about five minutes to Nursey 's snoring , and blowing through her own little nose to try to do the same , she was fast asleep again . She wakened again exactly at a quarter to six . The moonlight was now pouring into the room , and she could see everything as well as if by day . She got up and went out to the landing to look at the clock , and stood there in her white night-dress , with her little bare toes on the carpet , gazing at the solemn white face of the tall brown clock which Granny said had stood there just as she was for quite two hundred years . It was impossible not to think of this clock as a personage , and she was accustomed to change her character very much as Terry changed her moods .