six o'clock
Especially it communicated itself to the person chiefly concerned . The result was just what might have been expected . My mother was brought to bed prematurely , a full month before her time . By six o'clock the wind had risen to the force of a hurricane . The last of the withered leaves of the trees in the drive had fallen and the bare branches were beating together like bundles of rods . The sea was louder than ever , and the bell on St. Mary 's Rock , a mile away from the shore , was tolling like a knell under the surging of the waves . Sometimes the clashing of the rain against the window-panes was like the wash of billows over the port-holes of a ship at sea .