four o'clock
Either the upper part of almost every room is built of ornamental lattice-work , or the walls are set with numerous jalousies , that can be closed when a draught is undesirable but conduct the slightest sound . Rachael 's room adjoined her mother 's . She knew that the older woman was as uneasily awake as herself , though from vastly different manifestations of the same cause . At four o'clock , when the guinea fowl were screeching like demons , and had awakened the roosters and the dogs to swell the infernal chorus of a West Indian morning , Rachael sat up in bed and laughed noiselessly . `` What a night ! '' she thought . `` And for what ?