one
o'clock in the morning
During this scene , Mlle. de Fermont , still in a swoon , had been attended to by Clémence and the two nuns . Saint-Remy said in a low tone to Clémence : `` And the mother of this unhappy girl , madame ? '' The marchioness replied , in a voice deeply affected : `` She has no longer a mother , sir . I learnt yesterday only , on my return , the address of Madame de Fermont , and her dying condition ; at one o'clock in the morning I went to her with a medical man . Ah , sir , what a fiction ! It was misery in all its horror ! And no hope of saving the poor mother , whose last words were , ` My daughter ! ' ''