three o'clock
But it was too late now ; Augustus was to meet me outside the house , and we were to be married at a church in the town that very morning . Our names had been posted up in the register office some weeks before . ` I turned away from Lucy , and began putting some things together to take with me , and I hid them under the bed , lest Lucy should wake and see them . It was no use going to bed , for I had not got home from the theatricals till three o'clock , and in two hours Augustus would come . So I scribbled a little note to my mother , telling her that when she received it I should be married , and that I would call and see her in a few days . Then I put out the light , lest it should wake my sister , and sat waiting in the dark . And , Rosie dear , that star -- the same star that I had seen that night when I was a little girl , and had told that lie -- that same star came and looked in at the window .