nine o'clock
The poem was approaching completion , and this , in fact , was the reason why for fifteen days I deferred the execution of my purpose . The sufferings we all three experienced daily at this time , when it was impossible to entirely avoid each other 's presence , were endurable to me , and I sought to help Constance to bear them . To him they were , so to speak , a source of inspiration ; and I therefore determined to let things run their course until the last line should be written . On the fourth of October , -- it was Saturday , -- I , having a headache , did not get up to breakfast , and Gabriel left before nine o'clock for the Thatched Cottage . My sweet Constance spent the entire morning with me . She had brought a hat to trim , but the work did not proceed . It was a black felt hat , I remember , and I trimmed it for her .