about four o'clock in the morning
You shall know all that passes within doors ; and I only lament that you should have banished yourself from the asylum which I hoped to afford you . '' After some further conversation between them , a bundle was lowered by the grocer , containing a change of clothes and a couple of blankets . On receiving these , Leonard retired to the hutch , and tying a handkerchief round his wounded arm , wrapped himself in a night trail , and stretching himself on the ground , in spite of his anxiety , soon sank asleep . He awoke about four o'clock in the morning , with a painful consciousness of what had taken place during the night . It was just beginning to grow light , and he walked across the street to gaze at the house from which he was exiled . Its melancholy , uninhabited look did not serve to cheer him . It seemed totally altered since he knew it first .