about four o'clock
She tried to call to him but could command no voice and so waited , frozen , until he appeared in the doorway . `` I thought I heard you stirring down here and that it perhaps meant breakfast . Paula wo n't be down , I suppose , for hours . She fell asleep about four o'clock and has been sleeping quietly ever since . '' This was exactly like Paula , of course . She was the vortex of the whole tempest , but when she had thoroughly exhausted the emotional possibilities of it she sank into peaceful slumber like a baby after a hard cry . No wonder she was too much for these two Wollastons who sat now with dry throats and tremulous hands over the mockery of breakfast !