five o’clock
Yet notwithstanding her extreme sorrow , and the absence of all surrounding objects to soothe and to console her , the expanding dawn revived and even encouraged Sybil . In spite of the confined situation , she could still partially behold a sky dappled with rosy hues ; a sense of freshness touched her : she could not resist endeavouring to open the window and feel the air , notwithstanding all her bars . The wife of the inspector stirred , and half slumbering , murmured , `` Are you up ? It can not be more than five o'clock . If you open the window we shall catch cold ; but I will rise and help you to dress . '' This woman , like her husband , was naturally kind , and at once influenced by Sybil . They both treated her as a superior being ; and if , instead of the daughter of a lowly prisoner and herself a prisoner , she had been the noble child of a captive minister of state , they could not have extended to her a more humble and even delicate solicitude .