four o'clock in the morning
But now , please continue , Mr. Pender , and tell me the rest of your wonderful story ; and when you have finished , I will talk about the means of cure . '' Pender shifted his chair a little closer to the friendly doctor and then went on in the same nervous voice with his narrative . `` After making some notes of my impressions I finally got upstairs again to bed . It was four o'clock in the morning . I laughed all the way up -- at the grotesque banisters , the droll physiognomy of the staircase window , the burlesque grouping of the furniture , and the memory of that outrageous footstool in the room below ; but nothing more happened to alarm or disturb me , and I woke late in the morning after a dreamless sleep , none the worse for my experiment except for a slight headache and a coldness of the extremities due to lowered circulation . '' `` Fear gone , too ? '' asked the doctor .