hours after midnight
Old Miss Baker found her thus towards five o'clock the next morning . What had happened between one o'clock and dawn of that fearful night Trina never remembered . She could only recall herself , as in a picture , kneeling before her broken and rifled trunk , and then -- weeks later , so it seemed to her -- she woke to find herself in her own bed with an iced bandage about her forehead and the little old dressmaker at her side , stroking her hot , dry palm . The facts of the matter were that the German woman who lived below had been awakened some hours after midnight by the sounds of Trina 's weeping . She had come upstairs and into the room to find Trina stretched face downward upon the floor , half-conscious and sobbing , in the throes of an hysteria for which there was no relief . The woman , terrified , had called her husband , and between them they had got Trina upon the bed . Then the German woman happened to remember that Trina had friends in the big flat near by , and had sent her husband to fetch the retired dressmaker , while she herself remained behind to undress Trina and put her to bed .