six in the morning
I am going to tell Colonel Ross a tale which may or may not bear upon anything he knows . If not , he will interrupt me before I go far ; but if he says nothing I shall take it I have his leave to continue . Now , sir , on the 16th day of June last , and at six in the morning -- that would be the day of Quatre Bras -- '' He paused for me to nod assent , and continued . `` At six in the morning or a little earlier , this woman , Elspeth Mackenzie , came to me at the Manse in great perturbation . She had walked all the way from Ardlaugh . It had come to her -LRB- she said -RRB- that the young Laird abroad was in great trouble since the previous evening . I asked , ` What trouble ?