about two o'clock
`` What ! '' said I ; `` has all this miserable pageantry , this midnight wandering , and this ominous interview , been no more than -- _ a dream _ ? '' It may be proper to mention , in explanation of this scene , and to show the thorough perturbation of my mind during this night , intelligence gained some days after from Eliza . She said , that about two o'clock , on this night , she was roused by a violent ringing of the bell . She was startled by so unseasonable a summons . She slept in a chamber adjoining Mrs. Fielding 's , and hesitated whether she should alarm her friend ; but , the summons not being repeated , she had determined to forbear . Added to this , was the report of Mrs. Stevens , who , on the same night , about half an hour after I and her husband had retired , imagined that she heard the street door opened and shut ; but , this being followed by no other consequence , she supposed herself mistaken .