five
o’clock in the morning
That was why he and she were climbing the hill in the dewy silence of this August morning . Athalia had `` felt '' that she wanted to see the view -- though it would have been better for her to have rested in the station , Lewis thought ; -- -LRB- `` I ought to have coaxed her out of it , '' he reproached himself . -RRB- It certainly was a hard walk , considering that it followed a broken night in the sleeping-car . They had left the train at five o'clock in the morning , and were sitting in the station awaiting the express when Athalia had had this impulse to climb the hill . `` It looks pretty steep , '' Lewis objected ; and she flung out her hands with an impatient gesture . `` I love to climb ! '' she said .