about two o'clock in the
morning
Did you ever learn composition on the Hill ? I _ did n't _ ! `` The woman who looks after the cottage put Lady Hickle to bed and tucked her up ; placed a bottle of port in -- all came out at the inquest -- old Hickle 's room , and left the house . Next thing , about two o'clock in the morning , a shepherd or something saw a blaze and went to look . Cottage on fire , old Hickle burnt to a cinder , and the girl hauled out of bed just in time , gibbering in French or something in panic I suppose . `` The charwoman thinks the curtains caught fire in the candle , and that the port had made the old man sleep heavily and that he was suffocated by the smoke . `` Full moon , too .