about one o'clock
But the thought would persist that danger threatened some one she loved . Was it Denzil , or John ? Amaryllis tried to force herself from her unhappy impressions by thinking of what she could do presently in the summer , when she would be quite well again , though her greatest work must always be to try to make John happy , if by then he had come home . She heard him go into his room at about one o'clock , and then she crept noiselessly to her great gilt bed . John had waited for the New Year by the cedar parlour fire . The room was so filled with the radiance of Amaryllis that he liked being there . And he , too , was thinking of what their new life would be should he chance to come through .