Two o'clock
Surely it had rather increased , if anything . Fenwick paced with noiseless care about the little room ; he could not be still . The sustained monotone of wind and sea was only crossed now and then by a sound of fall or breakage , to chronicle some little piece of mischief achieved by the former on land , and raise the latter 's hopes of some such success in its turn before the night should end ... . Two o'clock by the dressing-table watch , and still the noiseless slippered feet of the sleepless man came and went . Little fear of any one else hearing him ! For the wind seemed to have got up the bit that was predicted of it , and had certainly gone round to the suth ` ard . If any sleeper could cling to unconsciousness through the rattle of the windows and the intermittent banging of a spectral door that defied identification -- the door that always bangs in storms everywhere -- the mere movement of a cautious foot would have no effect .