about half past four
`` I asked Jim , and he would n't tell me . '' `` When did you ask him ? '' `` The morning they went . I came down about half past four : mother does n't get up as early as that , we have n't much milk to look after now ; but I wake up awfully early sometimes , and I 'd rather be doing something than lying there wide awake . '' Ellen squeezed Fanny 's arm sympathetically . She herself had lost no moments of healthy sleep over Jim Dodge 's fancied defection ; but she enjoyed imagining herself to be involved in a passionate romance . `` Is n't it _ awful _ to lie awake and think -- _ and think _ , and not be able to do a single thing ! ''