a quarter to five in the morning
`` That anybody could have come into this house and gone out of it in a night , unknown to me , is a moral impossibility , '' said the housekeeper ; `` the doors were locked at half-past ten , and the keys were brought in a basket to my room . So , you see it 's quite impossible that any one could have come in or gone out before the doors were open in the morning . '' `` What time was the child 's disappearance discovered ? '' `` At a quarter to five in the morning , '' answered Mrs. Morden ; `` before any one in the house was a-stir . My darling has always been in the habit of waking at that hour , to take a little milk , which is left in a glass by her bedside . I woke at the usual time , and rose , in order to give her the milk , and when I looked at her cot , I saw that it was empty . The child was gone .