two o'clock
Hugh thought of the mother and daughter standing together downstairs and was unspeakably glad he had not given way to his impulse toward boldness . `` She would be telling her now . She is a good woman and would be telling her now , '' he thought . At two o'clock that night Hugh got out of bed . In spite of the conviction that women were not for him , he had found himself unable to sleep . Something that shone in the eyes of the school teacher , when she struggled with him for the possession of the plate , kept calling to him and he got up and went to the window . The clouds had all gone out of the sky and the night was clear .