twenty minutes past two
She kept silence till I had done . And then she put a question to me . `` What time was it , Francis , when you saw the Woman in your Dream ? '' I had looked at the clock when I left the inn , and I had noticed that the hands pointed to twenty minutes past two . Allowing for the time consumed in speaking to the landlord , and in getting on my clothes , I answered that I must have first seen the Woman at two o'clock in the morning . In other words , I had not only seen her on my birthday , but at the hour of my birth . My mother still kept silence .