one o'clock
The fire is getting under . ' Wilmet needed no second hint . She was up , reassuring Cherry at one moment ; then breaking into Martha 's heavy slumbers , impressing upon her the necessity of not shrieking ; then downstairs again , reviving the dying kitchen fire , and finding that , as usual , there was some water not yet cold . For , as she now saw , it was not yet one o'clock . She durst not go to her mother 's room , where ready means of heating food were always to be found . As she brought the jug to the door , Felix came in with Mr. Rugg , who , living in a street out of sight , and having ears for no sound but his own night-bell , had been ready at once to obey the call . Felix told his sister the little he knew .