two o'clock in the morning
After a while she calmed herself , rose , and sponged her face . Then once more on that fatal night she prepared for rest . Instead , however , or retiring , she pulled a silk quilt from her disordered bed and wrapping it round her , sat miserably to think . It was two o'clock in the morning . IV The fire was sunk to cold ashes in the grate , and the grey morning was creeping through the half-opened curtains like a thing ashamed , when Lois awoke . It was painful to move her head : her neck was cramped . The girl awoke in full recollection .