Two o'clock
It was a calm indifference to the waste of human life , which , displayed upon a larger field of operation , would have made a monster cold and passionless as Sphinx or Chimæra . `` I must see Ann Woolper , '' he said to himself , presently , `` she will not dare to exclude me from that room . '' He listened to the striking of the Bayswater clocks . Two o'clock . Within and without the house reigned a profound silence . The room immediately over Mr. Sheldon 's study was Charlotte 's room , and here there had been for a long time no sound of life or movement . `` Asleep , I dare say , '' muttered Mr. Sheldon , `` invalid and nurse both . ''