two o'clock
It had no bolts , and the key was missing ; yet , seeing his master 's nervous , excited state , he forbore from any mention of that circumstance when presently he returned to him . Darnley requested a book of Psalms , that he might read himself to sleep . The page dozed in a chair , and so the hours passed ; and at last the King himself fell into a light slumber . Out of this he started suddenly at a little before two o'clock , and sat upright in bed , alarmed without knowing why , listening with straining ears and throbbing pulses . He caught a repetition of the sound that had aroused him , a sound akin to that which had drawn his attention earlier , when Mary had been with him . It came up faintly from the room immediately beneath : her room . Some one was moving there , he thought .