four o'clock in the morning
And in fact was it not his duty to come ? Quietly he came into the hall , quietly she closed the door , and when they were shut up together in the parlour they both spoke in hushed voices , lest the invalid should be disturbed . And was not this , too , highly proper ? She gave him the news of the house and said that Mrs. Tams was taking duty in the sick-room till four o'clock in the morning , and herself thenceforward , but that the invalid gave no apparent cause for apprehension . `` Old Batch been again ? '' asked Louis , with a complete absence of any constraint . She shook her head .