two o'clock
`` If she reveals not the truth in season , '' I said in my secret soul ; `` if she claims not protection at my hands against the adulterer , she shall share his fate ! '' and with this resolve , even at the moment when I was measuring the antidote for myself , I resolved that the same vial should furnish the bane for her ! The medicine relieved me , though not with the same promptness as usual . I looked at the watch and found it two o'clock . My wife begged me to come to bed , but that was impossible . I proceeded to change my garments . By the time that I had finished , the rain ceased , the stars came out , the morning promised to be clear .