nearly seven
o'clock
I went back to bed and soon fell asleep again . I do not know whether I had been dreaming , but I woke suddenly with a presentation of the little pond on the Common very clear before me . `` We never looked in the pond , '' I thought , and then -- `` but he could not have fallen into the pond ; besides , it 's not two feet deep . '' It was full daylight , and I got up and found that it was nearly seven o'clock . The rain had stopped , but there was a scurry of low , threatening cloud that blew up from the south . I dressed at once and went out . I made my way directly to the Stotts ' cottage .